Courses
The Big Question!
Are you questioning enough?
Intended audience:
All Classroom Teachers, Tutors, Lecturers and Additional/Learning Support staff.
Focus:
The art of questioning is at the heart of learning: teaching, assessing, differentiating, coaching, motivating, developing thinking skills and creating critical thinkers – effective questions are key to these and more!
Appropriate questions, asked skillfully, contribute to significant improvements in learning. Limited questioning leads to limited understanding. Superficial questioning leads to superficial understanding.
Questioning is the essence of effective teaching because of the numerous purposes it serves: motivating learners, assessing knowledge and skills, and reviewing content. Questioning is the heart and soul of learning. It is the most widely used instructional strategy to facilitate learning.
Thinking is driven by questions, not answers, and learning is driven by thinking.
This event will give participants an opportunity to investigate the principles of effective questioning and the links between questioning, thinking and learning.
Purpose:
During this event you will:
- develop the art of questioning
- link questioning to creativity and critical thinking
- develop questioning skills for different learning outcomes
- investigate how to promote questioning skills in others
- learn how to use questions to drive up levels of learning
- understand how effective questioning can unlock motivation in the classroom
