Asking better questions Asking questions better

1.Why do you ask questions in lessons? 2.What do you think is a strength of your current questioning techniques? 3.What do you think you could develop? Reflection

Reviewing T&L in lessons with AfL as a focus The teacher uses skilful questioning, appropriate resources and engaging activities to focus and sustain whole class, group and paired dialogue.

Intended outcomes:  Increase the level and quality of thinking and interaction in your classroom by asking better questions and asking questions better.  Plan a series of questions for a significant part of a lesson on a topic which you are currently teaching  Reflect on the changes you intend to make to your current practice

1.Any other general good practice to continue the list we have started? 2.Pick a lesson you will be teaching in the next week and plan some questions for the lesson.

Asking better questions

1. Ask more HOT (higher order thinking) questions 2. Turn closed questions into open ones 3. Give the answer to a question and ask why it is correct 4. Turn the question into a true or false statement 5. Ask questions that explore opposites, differences, categories and exceptions 6. Focus on how to work the answer out 7. Devise ‘HOT’ multiple choice questions

Asking questions better

Ask questions better 1. Leave wait or think time 2. Use probing questions to search for more information 3. Random name generator 4. No hands up 5. Signals for feedback e.g. thumbs up, use of mini whiteboards, use of traffic light cards 6. Think, pair, share 7. Ask for 5 8. Take the answer round the class and bring it back

Intended outcomes:  Increase the level and quality of thinking and interaction in your classroom by asking better questions and asking questions better.  Plan a series of questions for a significant part of a lesson on a topic which you are currently teaching  Reflect on the changes you intend to make to your current practice