Effective Questioning PDF 1211918331526727 8 PDF
Effective Questioning PDF 1211918331526727 8 PDF
Classroom
What is a good
question? What are we
looking for
When do we
when children
ask questions? answer
Whoneedstobeaquestions?
goodquestioner?
When are questioning skills important
outside of school? What does a good
question do?
From Studies done in classrooms
Active
thinking
Respectful
challenges of
ideas
Feels Like
My questions will be valued
I am comfortable to ask a question that
challenges a point of view
My peers will respond courteously
when I ask a question
I respect different views
I am confident to ask left-of-field
questions
Example One:
What is a number?
Are numbers created or discovered?
Could numbers be different to how they
are now?
Look at the big questions - the
underlying concepts
Example Two:
What is fitness?
What is health?
Is fitness the same or different to health?
Look at the big questions - the
underlying concepts
Example Three:
What is knowledge?
What does it mean to know something?
Is all knowledge the same?
Look at the important questions - the
questions we should strive to answer
and are central to our lives
Example: Friendship
What does it mean to be a good friend?
How shall I treat my friends?
How can I be a better friend?
Look at challenging questions - when we
know that children will not know the
answer or even how to find out the
answer
Requires a degree of
Fat
explanation and interpretation
Complex
How could you encourage
children to eat healthier lunches?
Training kids into thinking question
routines.
Use questioning frameworks to help
extend types of questions
Explanation
Design
What do we know and
How can we make our
what are the possible
environment better?
explanations?
Emotions
Caution
How do we feel? What do
What are the possible we know? What can we do
dangers?
about it? What is the
conclusion?
Assessment
What are the good Evaluation
points and how can we How well did you do...
summarise them?
Event
Situation
Choice
Person
Reason
Means
Where/
Present
What is?
when is?
Which is?
Who is?
Why is?
How is?
Where/
Past
What did?
when did?
Which did?
Who did?
Why did?
How did?
Where/
Possibility
What can?
when can?
Which can?
Who can?
Why can?
How can?
Where/
Prediction
What will?
when will?
Which will?
Who will?
Why will?
How will?
Where/ Which
Imagination
What might?
when might?
might?
Who might?
Why might?
How might?
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Model
Enforce
Move from the teacher as a
questioner who sifts through answers
looking for the correct one
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