1. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

2. Questions are catalysts for change
Why do ask we questions?
Check progress
Underline the learning journey
Check for misconceptions
Inspire curiosity and wonder
Encourage students to think and ask questions
Improve appropriateness of future lessons
Questions are catalysts for change

3. What makes for effective questioning?
The objectives of the lesson are clear
Question can be understood by the audience
Students understand the purpose of the question
It will stimulate the whole group to actively think
It requires a definite answers
It supports students to have a better understanding of the course and how to maximise their potential.

4. Powerful questions
Are agents that stimulates or precipitates a reaction, development, or change

5. Typicality, what’s going off in your class?
How many questions do you ask in a typical lesson?
What type of questions do you typically ask your students?
How many questions do your students ask in a typical lesson and who usually asks them?
What type of questions do you encourage your students to ask you, themselves and other students?

6. What’s the climate for questioning like in your classroom?
How much wait time do I give students after different types of questioning?
How do I respond when a students answer a question?
What do I do when students do not respond to my questions in the way I expected?
How do I deal with the situation when a student gives an incorrect response?
What do I do to encourage quieter students to respond to my questions?

7. Practical questioning strategies

8. Know your class
Ask the right questions, to the right students, at the right time Remember these change every lesson, and you have to be watching the class dynamics all the time

9. No hands up Keep them in the game
Who wants to outline what they had for breakfast this morning? Put your hands up
The moment I ask for hands I am allowing students to opt out of the Q&A process
Who is in control of the learning process now?
Keep them in the game

10. iPad e-boards Why is Usain Bolt not the saviour of athletics?
Ask the question
Wait
View all students answers
iPad can save their answers
Practice putting the e-boards up with the students
(then use stepped approach to spin up questions)

11. Increased wait time
Most teachers wait less than a second for an answer 3 seconds for lower order questions 10 seconds for higher order ones

12. Ask a friend
Empower a student who is struggling with a question, allow them to ask a friend Then get the class to suggest whether they are right or wrong, could be a e-board moment

13. Demand that students can’t use this as an answer to a question
Keep them at it, don’t take no for an answer
9 times out of 10 they do know and they feel better for telling you and it re-enforces your message.

14. Don’t confuse this with addressing student misconceptions
Embellishment
Don’t confuse this with addressing student misconceptions

15. TPS

16. PPPB

17. Annoying infant
why, why, why

18. Why do more men now use moisturiser in the morning than 20 years ago?
Staged questioning
Why do more men now use moisturiser in the morning than 20 years ago?
Build a complex answer from the bottom through a series of ever more complex questions
You could use an e-whiteboard question as a starting point don’t forget PPPB, you might want to throw in a bit of TPS here. A touch of annoying infant and a anti I don’t know policy helps, as does knowing your students

19. What are you going to do to become better at using questioning in your lessons?

20. Questioning and deep learning
Good quality questioning supports this type of activity

21. Bloom

22. The quality of a question is not judged by its complexity but by the complexity of thinking it provokes