Questioning in Room 4

After going to the Trevor Bond Questioning day I have tried out some of his ideas in the classroom!

By making the teaching of questioning explicit and open the children have a much clearer idea of the types of questions and the purpose of questions.

We have

1. Looked at different types of questions
2. Sorted different questions
3. Investigated the purpose of different questions
   
4. Written questions linked to a relevant contextual scenario
   
5. Assessed the questions against Trevor's 7s stages of questions (quite challenging for myself as well as the students)

Interestingly once the 7 stages had been used many of the students tried to create stage 7 questions all the time even though we had discussed that these aren't the BEST questions!!! Trevor said this would happen...

More to come! I am hoping this will lead on to better questions during our inquiry 'wonderings'...
Another of Trevor's comments- If the students ask a question turn it into an activity!