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Tag: differentiating questioning
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Habituate learners into giving higher quality responses to your questions, whatever their starting points
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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Three ways you can revisit how you plan questions, that will help you to more effectively differentiate for the learners in front of you
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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Rethink the underlying processes of classroom questioning to fundamentally change how learners respond
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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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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A questioning activity that is pure Sherlock Holmes and a second that takes learners on a journey from easy to (fiendishly) difficult
Detective Inspectors Divide the class into groups of three. Give each group a number (you might want to make this really clear by printing large numbers on sheets of paper…
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Easy-to-use, tried and tested techniques for effectively differentiating your questioning in any lesson you teach
We can use questioning to differentiate in any lesson, at any time. The simplest way to do this is to vary the difficulty level of the questions you ask. Here…