1. The Power of Questioning Conference

2. Welcome and Programme RBA Staff Questioning Conference Day 1 Programme
Timings
All Staff
Venue
Led by
8.00 – 8.25
Breakfast available
Canteen
KTA
8.25 – 8.35
Welcome and aims of the two days
Hall
RPH
8.35– 8.40
Introduction to Key Note Speaker
CDE
8.40 – 9.40
Key Note Speaker – ‘What Every School Needs to Know About Psychology’
Nick Rose
9.40 – 9.50
Comfort Break
All
Session
Staff
9.50 –10.45
Guest Speaker ‘The Power of Questioning’
All teaching Staff and TA’s
Simon Hardwick
TA’s
Simon
Hardwick
Admin time
TBC
Support Staff
10.45 – 11.05
Break
11.05 – 12.05
Guest Speaker ‘The Power of Questioning’
Teaching Staff
Bake Off
12.05 – 12.30
Create your action plan
12.30 – 13.00
Lunch
13.00 – 13.40
Workshop A – LILAC (Language in Learning Across the Curriculum) A2
RSA
Workshop A - LILAC (Language in Learning Across the Curriculum)
Support staff
Workshops B - Technology and questioning
Sixthform centre
LTH
Workshop D – ICT quick wins N5
LZI/SCR
Workshop C - Practical ways to implement ‘Questioning’
HOD
13.45 – 16.00
Department Time to implement ‘The Power of Questioning’
Depts
Various
17.00
Evening dinner invite at Maison Paul (Hoddesdon High Street, £10 for a two course meal)

3. RBA Staff Questioning Conference Day 2 Programme
Timings
All Staff
Venue
Led by
8.15 – 8.45
Breakfast available
Canteen
KTA
Wellbeing
Hall
BST/STW
Please take your break when best suits you/your team. Tea and Coffee will be available all day in the canteen.
Session
Staff
9.15 – 12.15
Department Time to implement ‘The Power of Questioning’
Various
Teaching Staff
HOD
Admin time
Support Staff
12.15 – 12.45
Lunch
All
12.45 – 13.20
Sharing Success/ Evaluation
ALL
CDE/RPH
13.30
Close

4. ‘Our Journey to Good and Outstanding’ Marking and Assessment Feedback
Our Six Key Drivers
‘Our Journey to Good and Outstanding’
SOL
Marking and Assessment Feedback
Questioning
AFL
Literacy
Monitoring
CPSD
CPSD
Questioning
AFL

5. Aims
Share practical advice and facilitate deeper thinking time, to support and embed ‘Questioning’ as one of our six key drivers, which will be transferrable to our ‘RBA Learning Wheel’.
Ensure there is an active forum for CPSD (Continual Professional Staff Development) through our two day conference.
To share good practice amongst ourselves and absorb the wealth of knowledge that this sitting here in this hall!
Enjoy the two days and challenge your thinking!

6. Tom,… …?
Ceddy,… …?
Fill in the blank!

7. Welcome Nick Rose

8. RBA Learning Wheel ‘The Power of Questioning’ Action Plan
Department: History
Questioning techniques
Key Stage
How will we implement it?
Day 1
Day 2
Check list
Harder Thinking
Socratic
Process
KS4
KS5
Unit 1A: Medicine Through Time: review lessons for each time period
Appeasement – through the use of Edmodo
AWA –update Ancient medicine
BST - update Middle Ages
RPH - update Renaissance
Controversy lessons – weaving in hook and review
Link into dept. action plan
RAG units to identify quick wins
Link in reviews to medicine lessons for the new spec. Thinking harder planning sheet for each unit  
Hmwks linked to students creating their own Socratic questions based on the controversy.
Updated/integrated into RBA SOL
Integrated into RBA p.pt within the ‘review’ phase
Adjusted lessons to address the natural ‘forgetting curve’
2016
2017
Probing questions
 KS5
Hmwks to create their own hooks and reviews to link with the topic to be used for revision
KS3
 Rotation of dept cluster meetings to review progress of the implementation of questioning
Arrange to drop into colleagues and vice versa to see active questioning in actions
Ensure SoL have clear references to the different styles of questioning that can be done verbally and written.
RBA Learning Wheel

9. The Power of Questioning Conference - Day 2

10. Aims
Share practical advice and facilitate deeper thinking time, to support and embed ‘Questioning’ as one of our six key drivers, which will be transferrable to our ‘RBA Learning Wheel’.
Ensure there is an active forum for CPSD (Continual Professional Staff Development) through our two day conference.
To share good practice amongst ourselves and absorb the wealth of knowledge that this sitting here in this hall!
Enjoy the two days and challenge your thinking!

11. ‘Our Journey to Good and Outstanding’ Marking and Assessment Feedback
Evaluation
‘Our Journey to Good and Outstanding’
SOL
Marking and Assessment Feedback
Questioning
AFL
Literacy
Monitoring
CPSD
SOL
CPSD
Monitoring
Questioning
AFL
Literacy

12. What will outstanding questioning look like?

13. Specific Criteria Outstanding Good RI
On your tables create a criteria for questioning. Use the key words as prompts (to avoid overloading!)
Specific Criteria
Outstanding
Good RI

14. Sharing Success

15. Maria, Emma, Lynn, Lee, James and Andrew
George, Dave and Lee
Maria, Emma, Lynn, Lee, James and Andrew
PDT

16. Richard Saunders, Suzanne Crow, Sarah Tweddell and Bryony Stockwell