Effective questioning strategies are an important part of good teaching. However, sometimes we waste time asking when we should be telling.
Chances are, you’ve read, listened to or seen a version of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Here, teacher and author Lisa Jane Ashes applies themes and characters from Douglas Adams’ sci fi classic to look at how teachers can best create great questions.
Before Christmas I wrote about teacher responsiveness and differentiation - here. Since then I have been considering the importance of responsive questioning, of how we respond to the unpredictable - and sometimes downright bizarre! - verbal feedback we receive from our students. Once again, this is about our on-the-spot agility, our knowledge of our students…
Over a decade ago, cognitive scientists John D. Bransford and Daniel J. Schwartz asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to pr