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Tag: challenging questions
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Start thinking critically about the questions you ask and get an instant boost to your in-lesson differentiation
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Channel the power of the Ancients and get your learners sharpening their skills of evaluation every time you teach
A long, long time ago … Back in Ancient Greece, philosophers of the time pressed each other for justification. A claim could be made, but it would then face scrutiny.…
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Stingrays, uncertainty and Bloom’s Taxonomy: three ways to shift mindsets that will change how you think about challenge
Stingray Questions In Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates walked around the city streets of Athens posing difficult questions to the people he met. His aim was to press them on…
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Using questions to challenge, probe and provoke (and how that can swiftly change the dynamic in your classroom)
Questions do things. They have more power than most statements. They cause people to act. Here we will look at four specific things that questions can do and that are…