Where have all the students’ questions gone?
In my quest to better understand the nature of effective questioning I’ve become more acutely aware of the scarcity of times when insightful questions...
Question Frames
One recurrent theme throughout a lot of my recent posts has been the use of questioning. In no small part is this a result...
‘Pre-Assessment’ or ‘What do you already know?’
I think most teachers will agree that some of the most satisfying moments in the classroom happen when students bring something personal or original...
Focus on the questions that matter
I think it would be fascinating to do a school wide study into how many questions students are presented with in every lesson. Admittedly...
Hinge Questions: A Case for Closed Questions
Much talk about questioning in the classroom will focus on the dichotomy between closed questions being problematic and open questions as very much the...
Classroom Design: Considering the dynamics of desks
The image above, taken from a Victorian classroom, paints a very clear picture that whilst many aspects of education are unrecognisable from those of...
Are Kahoot quizzes just a bit of fun?
I have used Kahoot as a fun quiz technique in my lessons for some time, however a recent discovery of the analysis function in...
Reflections on Questioning
By S Clarke
I decided to join the questioning strand of CPD training as I felt as a more experienced Teacher it was something I could...
What Scrabble can teach us about Questioning
Let’s work on the premise that one way of offering differentiated learning tasks is to offer a choice of questions to learners, who can...
WWIDD: Reflective Questioning
Albert Einstein remarked that the definition of insanity was ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’ And yet students...