Thinking+&+Questioning

=Effective Questioning= • includes ‘staging’ questions to draw pupils towards key understanding or to increase the level of challenge in a lesson as it proceeds • involves all pupils • engages pupils in thinking for themselves • promotes justification and reasoning • creates an atmosphere of trust where pupils’ opinions and ideas are valued • shows connections between previous and new learning • encourages pupils to speculate and hypothesise • encourages pupils to ask as well as to ‘receive’ questions • encourages pupils to listen and respond to each other as well as to the teacher || ==Tactics for effective questions==
 * • reinforces and revisits the learning objectives



Alternatives to questions
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= Graphic Organisers = These templates are from the VELS website - using [|graphic organisers] for thinking. They offer the templates and also examples so that you can see how each graphic organiser can be used.
 * **Graphic Organiser Type** || **Template File** ||
 * || [[file:4cing_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:bar_key_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:cec_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:changes_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:fishbone_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:lotus_diagram_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:pooch_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:question_matrix_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:ranking_ladder_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:ripple_effect_chart_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:scamper_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:swot_template.doc]] ||
 * || [[file:thinking_about_thinking_template.doc]] ||