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Learn effective strategies and techniques to embed challenging questioning activities in your teaching. Develop enquiring minds and engage students using Bloom's Taxonomy and interactive techniques. Increase student interaction and progress through targeted differentiation.
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Why ask questions? • To check and build on prior knowledge • To interact, interest, engage and challenge. • To develop enquiring minds • To focus thinking on key concepts and issues. • Interaction • Challenge • Progress • Assessment
Embedding Challenging Questioning Activity 1
Activity 1 Read the article and answer the SATIP questions. How can you use Bloom’s taxonomy to further develop greater challenge in the questions?
Embedding Challenging Questioning Activity 2 I couldn’t disagree more……. This simple exercise helps to build the skill of thinking on your feet and quick response. The teacher (or pupil) makes a statement and invites another pupil to respond starting with “I couldn’t disagree more because…” and developing their reason. This strategy can be used to encourage students to challenge each others opinions and also to encourage clear and confident justification of ideas. It requires students to analyse, synthesise and evaluate ideas. Choose one of the following to discuss in your group. Each person must start their sentence with the phrase: ‘I couldn’t disagree more’…… • Fox hunting should be banned • War is always wrong • Women should stay at home and look after the children • Footballers earn too much money • Compulsory PE should be banned in schools • English is the best subject at school • Students should be allowed to choose all of their GCSE subjects
Embedding Challenging Questioning Activity 3
Activity 3 Swans Reflecting Elephants, 1937 by Salvador Dali Using the Content Process Form Mood questions. Annotate the picture with ideas to show your interpretations of the picture.
Embedding Challenging Questioning Activity 4
Activity 4 DEAL – answer the questions based on the images. Can you add further challenge? What activities could you apply this to in your subject?
Embedding Challenging Questioning Activity 5 Activity 5 What activities could you apply this to in your subject?
Embedding Challenging Questioning Activity 6 Activity 6 What activities could you apply this to in your subject?
Some quick and practical strategies to help • Increase wait time • No hands up • Phone a friend • Think, pair, share • Snowballing • Answers on your mini whiteboard • Levelled questions e.g. Olympic challenge - bronze, silver, gold • But why?
How can you broaden questions – and show this in your planning?