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Tag: questioning
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The What If? Box – Free Resource
Put Creative Thinking At the Heart of Your Lessons Viewed and Downloaded 24,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 168 creative questions to get you and your learners thinking…
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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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Use your classroom walls to bring questioning to life for your learners, differentiating learning in the process
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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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…