1. EFFECTIVE QUESTIONING
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Learning Intentions
I can ask questions more effectively.
I can ask more effective questions.
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Success Criteria
By the end of this workshop you will:
Leave with at least one useful idea you can employ in the classroom to develop your questioning skills.
Feel more confident in supporting a peer to improve their questioning technique.
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Task
In this workshop you will experience a range of questioning techniques to promote higher order thinking skills (HOTS). 
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Blooms Taxonomy
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6. Tips to Ask Questions More Effectively
Create an Atmosphere for Learning.
Banish inhibitions by valuing mistakes.
No put downs and sarcasm.
Give direction: "Everyone think about it".
Give an accepting response.
Simply say ‘thank you’.
To ensure that less confident pupils are not put off answering questions.
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7. Tips to Ask Questions More Effectively
Pose, Pause, Pounce, Bounce.
Leave Wait or Think Time.
After asking the question.
And after the pupil responds.
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Questions that Explore Opposites, Differences, Categories and Exceptions
Would Donald Trump be effective in the role of President of the United States?
Could be:
What will life be like in the USA in two years time if Donald Trump wins the election?
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Questions that Give the Answer and Make Pupils Explain Why this is Right
What kind of play is Hamlet?
Could be:
Why is Hamlet a tragedy?
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10. Examples of Effective Questions
1. Questions for remembering
Can the learner recall or remember the information?
How many...?
What is...?
Who was it that...?
When...why...how did?
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2. Questions for understanding
Can the learner explain ideas or concepts?
How would you say...tell in your own words...?
How would you explain...?
What do you think...?
What examples could you give of...?
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3. Questions for applying
Can the learner apply previous learning in a new context?
How/ why is … an example of...?
What facts would you choose to show...?
What questions would you ask of...?
How would you use...?
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4. Questions for analysing
Can the learner analyse a text, idea or point of learning?
Which events could not have happened?
Which things were fact and which opinions?
What was the purpose of...?
What evidence can you find to..?
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5. Questions for evaluating
Can the learner draw together what they have learned?
Is there a better solution to...?
Can you defend your position on...?
What are the consequences?
What would you recommend?
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6. Questions for creating
Can the learner use their prior learning to then create an essay, a presentation etc.
What would be a possible solution to...?
How could you change the plot?
How could you design / invent a new way to...?
What outcome could you predict if...?
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Sharing
Does anyone else have any strategies to share?
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Ideas From Staff
Use a random name generator from the Internet like the one below to select students to answer questions:
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Ideas From Staff
Give the pupils an answer and ask them to generate a question.
Tell the kids a question and say that you are going to ask it in 2 minutes.
Use concept cartoons and ask why?
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Ideas From Staff
Think, pair and share.
Present 4 different answers and ask pupils to think about what is the best answer and why. Why is the wrong answer incorrect.
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Ideas From Staff
Pass a small soft rugby ball to pupils.
Pupils can pass the ball to someone else to help them answer a question but the ball goes back to them to answer in the end.
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Ideas From Staff
What if a pupil says ‘I don’t know’?
Encourage them to think and employ strategies to help come to the answer.
Ask another pupil to help them.
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22. Involving the Whole Class
Questions could be placed on the board for individuals to answer.
Pupils then peer mark each other’s answers (without the official answers) and agree on the correct answers.
Pairs come together to make groups of to discuss their answers and agree on the correct answers.
Each group reads out their answers and the teacher writes them all on the board.
The answers are discussed as a class and a consensus is reached of what the correct answers are.
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Ideas From Staff
Do not give the right answer in the example on the previous slide.
Keep going through the stages until the pupils get the right answer(s).
Encourage them to think about what they discarded and why they discarded what they thought were the wrong answers.
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Your Turn
Using the white boards:
Identify a question you have asked in class recently (Remembering).
Now reword the question to make it more effective (Creating).
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Further Information
EHSTeaching website
‘Asking Better Questions’ by Ian Smith.
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Success Criteria
By the end of this workshop you will:
Leave with at least one useful idea you can employ in the classroom to develop your questioning skills.
Feel more confident in supporting a peer to improve their questioning technique.
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