1. Questioning • Language, either written or spoken, helps us to think

2. Questioning • Effective teaching involves using language to make things happen and enable learners to understand. It involves including young people by using language which tells them, ‘You matter too. Like mine, your views and feelings are legitimate and respectable.’

3. Questioning • Questioning is fundamental to good teaching and learning • Effective questioning creates a climate where pupils are more likely to develop independence in the way they learn and think

4. Questioning • Effective questioning is a skill that can be learned. • How can you develop your questioning skills?

5. Questioning • Know how to plan questioning for a lesson • Understand how questions engage pupils and promote responses • Understand how to develop pupils’ cognitive abilities

6. Questioning • Understand and be able to apply a taxonomy to questioning in your subject • Learn the classroom techniques that support effective questioning – share ideas and questions • Know how to encourage pupil participation