Great Teaching: Questioning - The Key to Formative Assessment
Suitable for: Headteacher, Heads of Department, Subject Leaders, Teachers, ECTs, LTA
| Course code | Keystages | Presented by |
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| PTL118 | Foundation; KS1; KS2 |
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This course is part of a series of courses using evidence-informed research and practice, to develop and embed 'great' teaching and learning.
This course will:
- Consider the role and value of effective questioning in promoting progress in learning
- Develop techniques for effective questioning to scaffold and challenge thinking
- Provide practical strategies to develop children’s questioning and answering skills
"Questions help students practise new information and connect new materials to their prior learning." Rosenshine B (2012) Principles of Instruction
Effective questioning is at the heart of formative assessment and is key to enabling pupils' learning… assessing pupils' understanding, activating prior learning, making sure pupils are thinking harder and learning more.
This course will focus on the development of teachers' questioning skills, drawing on the findings of research and excellent practice. Participants will be given the opportunity to reflect on their current questioning techniques and will identify opportunities to develop their practice further.
Guidance will be given on the effective use of strategies such as:
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - questions to develop higher-order thinking
SOLO – the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes
Scaffolding learning with questions
A variety of question formats (open/closed, multiple choice, odd one out, etc.)
Thinking time and responding to pupils' answers
Blank's Levels of Questioning
Using questioning to assess, and inform planning
The use of questions in giving feedback
The Ofsted Inspection Toolkit states inspectors will consider the extent to which… "teachers… promote appropriate discussion, check pupils’ understanding systematically, identify misunderstandings and adapt teaching as necessary to correct these". Effective questioning is essential to enable this to take place in the classroom..
The course will take place over two mornings, so that participants can try different strategies between the sessions.
Participants will be expected to attend both sessions.
This course is applicable for all phases of the Primary School and will be particularly beneficial for teachers and teaching assistants.
This course is restricted to 2 applications per school.