3. Questioning
This intermediate course on questioning is central to helping your students think, listen and respond to each other, deepening thinking individually and collaboratively.
Introduction to Questioning
What is a question?
Open and closed questions
The Dialectical Effect
Question Types
4 Rs
The Emergent Question approach
Dichotomous and multiple-choice question
Interrogative questions
Bloom's Taxonomy
If-ing, Anchoring and Opening Up
Anchoring
Double anchor and atomic anchoring
Making connections or self-anchoring
Opening up
4Ys
Opening up ‘I don’t know’
If-ing
If-the-fact
If-ing for inferencing
Either-or-the-if
Tasking for diversity
The imaginary disagreer
Devil's advocate
Talking Partners and Groups
Questioning values
Is-ing and oughting
Carve it up
When someone gives a wrong answer
Key Idea: putting things into question
Asking Why?
Walls and boxes
Juicy Bits!
Assumptions: welcome and unwelcome
Visual Thinking Strategies
Hokey Kokey/Kokey Hokey
Answering questions
Bad questions
How to respond to pupils
How to respond to pupils
Questioning Evaluation and Assessment