 Hello everyone happy Friday. I hope you're well. I hope the weather is okay where you are It's been a bit miserable what I am for most of the week What I'd like to talk about this weekend for you is Questioning instructions, so let me just put that up on the screen question structures Now you can download this on my website and This is inspired by a book by Peter Walley a hundred ideas for primary teachers And I really believe that question is that a teacher's number one repertoire Obviously, there's behavior subject knowledge all those types of things But having a range of questioning types Is a real a thing that all teachers need in their repertoire So i'm a big fan of these books having written one myself a few years ago Um, so let me just put the slides full size and i'm going to go through seven Questioning structures for you. Um, so here we go. So um, I'm going to go through seven Um, and then give you some examples Um, so I'll go through the first one in a second But um, I've advocated for a number of years that all teachers need to develop a wide repertoire Of question strategies, and I think if we master this You can hold all your students to account So although this book's written predominantly for primary teachers and mine I think it's something for all educators The ability to pose questions Thinking on your feet frame content and then learn how to implement them Is a kind of true secret to great teaching a good question great assessment So i've picked out some of my favorites. Um, so the first one is um task designed questions explicit questions were Designed to answer the question. So i'll give you one example. Um What would happen if an empty cup fell off the table onto the floor? Okay, and we might do that in a science lesson. I'll give you some examples Uh more in a moment with some templates idea to kind of thesis type Questions, um pose a hypothesis to elicit thinking and perhaps a position. So one might be Should britain have left europe? Uh, so there's a an interesting question. Uh number three meta type questions So philosophical concepts which lead to further questions So again an example might be to maybe kickstart a debate a debate um What are the reasons why donald trump didn't uh attend bygans, uh, biden's inauguration? Um, so there's another interesting example Uh idea four at start set research questions These are great to start the lesson off kids get off and research something And then they come back and set all the kind of the findings throughout the lesson to end the lesson So, uh, I guess an example might be Um Kind of the one that I already mentioned, you know, the president donald trump, uh, not attended bygans inauguration and that meta type question Um the philosophical concept just to clarify, you know, did the chicken or egg confers those types So i'll go through some examples Let me just come to the next idea that I like the empirical ones are checking facts So an example might be factual statements which require checking. Um, so you could say Is a panda bear more black or white in color? Is pluto round? How many moons does jupiter have? Uh, so kind of factual things really useful. So remember, um, it's important to have a range of question types multiple choice questions Now we know the research and retrieval desirably difficult The choices particularly multiple choice have to be Hard to eliminate not easy and of course context what age what subject what time in the academic year What do they already know all those factors? With context aside, they're good for retrieval practice and to pose alternative, um choices They're good also for setting an agenda And they're brilliant for reducing teacher work though when it comes to marking The last one i've got here is the implicit or explicit or implicit. So the subconscious or conscious and You know, maybe a kind of question or a statement type one. So i'll give an example um, an example might be An implicit example. What is a letter an explicit example is a letter So another example back in the classroom designing technology To be good at making tables you need to measure while it's very abstract implicit To make it more explicit to be good at making a table and chair You need to use a tenon saw a bench hook a measuring tape and make some paper models Two or three times and obviously go into more specifics. So what i've got for you here on this slide is examples across the top And then obviously you can delete all that at the top, but use those examples to then plan your questions along the bottom And have the types of questions That you can post your students in class or maybe redesign this template When you want students to create their own self and peer assessment type questions to ask one another Um, go a little bit further. Um, so you've got some examples there. There's some examples of task-based questioning Uh, so i've already given you an example about coffee. Uh, why does the earth rotate? through night and day Uh thesis question should Britain have left europe? What is gravity those types? Um, the meta question So philosophical chicken or red? chicken or egg Or does this question make sense? Uh, the start set research great activity focus type question Go off and find that come back and report and then the empirical You know something you can do in the room perhaps Or something to do with what you're teaching in terms of your curriculum choices. How many moons does Jupiter have? Or whatever it might be and then the multiple choice great methodology for Retrieval practice and to reduce your marking and then the explicit implicit is a letter Is it what is a letter versus is the letter a letter? I'll just be very explicit there So there's some good ideas here. Let me just pop back to the kind of main Seven graphics. There they are there seven really simple You can download this resource on my site download the template. Um, let me just come back off the slides here Um, there's the book peter walley hundred ideas for prime teachers really really good good book And if you want an old classic it'll I'll be eight years old My first book hundred ideas you'll get lots of pocket guides in there So short and simple something to inspire you something to make you think um post some questions my way Follow the links to the profile of facebook twitter or youtube and you can download this resource Have a nice weekend. Look after yourself