Ok, it’s A Bit silly … But hopefully it caught your eye
Captain Query 21st Century Questioning introduction Ok, so this is a bit of gimmick, but we wanted to capture your interest. The truth is effective formative assessment such as questioning will, on average, increase your students grades by one grade boundary each [1]. Best of all, it takes no extra prep time, just a bit of practice and getting used to!
Contents Open Response Questioning – The good, The Bad & The Ugly Directed Questioning – One Mind at a Time PPPB (Basketball) – All for one & one for all Bloom Questioning - for the good of greater minds Glossary Extracts - that’s the way to do it
Credits www.comicmaster.org.uk – Site used to create this comic www.socrative.com – Online All-response & assessment management system www.polleverywhere.com – Online voting / all-response system [1] - Hattie, J., Visible Learning for Teachers, 2011, Routledge
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Glossary Extracts Strategies that can improve the achievement of your students right now! All Response Multiple Choice Display 4-10 possible answer / responses, ask learners to hold up their fingers to demonstrate what they believe is the answer and start asking questions.
All Response Thumbs Ask learners to demonstrate whether a statement is true of false by holding their thumbs up or down. You can get further engagement by getting the learners to write the statements in advance.
Assertive questioning Students are asked an open question. Students work on this individually, or better in pairs, for one to five minutes. Teacher asks students if they have an answer. If they don't, help is given. Teacher nominates students to give their answers (not volunteers). Teacher does not give away answer until all have contributed.
PPPB (Basketball) Pose, Pause Pounce, Bounce. You pose a question to the group, wait for a few seconds and then choose a student to answer the question at random. Once they have answered, ask why, is that right or wrong, and pick another student. You can even ask for more detail, explanation, evaluation.
Questioning Objectives This can get the learners really involved at the start of a lesson. Before you chare the objectives for the lesson, tell the students what the topic is - For instance "the functions of the endocrine system" and then ask them what questions they might want to be able to answer at the end of the lesson. Of course they may not know the technical terminology, but they can think about the applications of the topic to their assignments/work/vocational area.
Quick Peer Quiz All learners are provided with a sticky note or small piece of paper, they each write a question to be posed to someone else. The question then passes to someone else in the room who writes down their answer. Finally, the question and answer is passed to one other learner who "marks" and writes feedback on the answer.
For more strategies, resources, video guides and to add your own strategies please go to the Questioning Techniques Glossary on the Resources page of the Learning & Teaching Site
Do you ask the student or the question?
When you ask, how many answer?
Who learns more, the student who gets the answer right or wrong?
Visit The Questioning Strategies Repository on the Learning & Teaching resource page for more tips, techniques and Resources to help your learners achieve higher.
All Response Group Response Multi-Response Peer Response Single Response Techniques
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