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Sep

29

2017
Ten Questioning Strategies

Ten Questioning Strategies

by Jamie Thom
in Teaching and Learning

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” Claude Levi-Strauss Einstein would be rather chuffed: I have spent the last two weeks questioning everything about my approach to questioning in the classroom. Having written about the questioning traps that I kept finding myself stumbling into with new groups, I have made developing questioning in the classroom my pedagogical mission for this year....

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Sep

15

2017
Question mark heap on table concept for confusion, question or solution

Questioning Traps

by Jamie Thom
in Teaching and Learning

“A prudent question is one half of wisdom” Frances Bacon. There is always something slightly tentative about the first two weeks of term: students are eying us up carefully, deciding exactly how they are going to respond to our magnificent lessons (rather Machievalian I know!)   I have had an interesting week with a Year 9 group who at the moment are heroically quiet, eerily...

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