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Tag: questioning strategies
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Instantly differentiate your questioning, including for your less- and more-able learners, by letting Bloom’s Taxonomy do the work for you
Bloom’s-Based Extension Questions Let’s think briefly about using Bloom’s taxonomy to structure extension questions. These questions are supplements to the main work of the lesson. They are called extensions because…
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Tailor your questions, frame your lessons and recalibrate your activities with ease when you start using Bloom’s-based questioning in your planning
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Frame Objectives, Lessons and Activities as Questions Framing learning objectives as questions offers lots of opportunities. The technique encourages a sense of enquiry, provides a means…
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Change how you think about questioning with sixty ready-to-go, tried-and-tested question stems covering each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy
The Art of Questioning Questioning is one of the most important tools at the teacher’s disposal. We ask hundreds of questions every day. It’s one of the ways, if not…
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How expert teachers use Bloom’s Taxonomy as their go-to teaching tool for facilitating challenge (unless they only teach practical areas of the curriculum)
Challenge in the Classroom Let’s think about challenge and, specifically, how Bloom’s Taxonomy helps teachers to facilitate it. Challenge means that learners are being asked to do more than they…
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How open vs closed is at the centre of almost every decision you’re ever likely to make about the nature of your classroom questioning
Open Questions We might think of open questions like this: ˂ The question is the starting point. From this, different possible responses branch out. A variety of different paths can…
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Ready-to-Use Classroom Synthesis Questions for Primary and Secondary
These questions are ready-to-use. They are synthesis questions, based on the fifth level of Bloom’s Taxonomy. You can use the questions as part of verbal questioning or as written questions.…
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One questioning activity that creates a holistic overview and a second that prioritises understanding success criteria
Different Questions, Same Material Divide the class into groups of three. Each group is given the same resources but a different question. Groups try to answer their questions by analysing…
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Question Stations and Question Cards: a pair of planning intensive questioning activities that reap big rewards
Question Stations Create six or seven stations around your room (this is working on the premise that you have around thirty learners). Each station should be focussed on a different…
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Take your questioning down a meta path with two activities that get learners thinking critically about how to answer, and make sense of, the questions they see and hear
Questioning the Question When learners answer a question or complete a task, it is always of benefit if they first question that which is being asked or requested of them.…
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Two different ways to tap into the power of interviews so you can engage your learners and get them asking high-quality questions
Interviewing Here are three ways you can use interviewing as the basis of a classroom activity. Explain to learners that they will be interviewing their peers to find out their…