Ask Better Questions

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Michael Chiles Principal examiner, curriculum development advisor, school leader and author
Guide

Learn to ask a range of question types, from information recall to promote retrieval practice to higher-order questions which encourage the development of answers.

The art of asking questions is more complex than we might assume. Teachers ask hundreds of questions every day as they try to unravel what pupils are thinking. If we are to maximise the benefit of using questions to gather feedback, we should aim to ask a range of question types, from information recall to promote retrieval practice to higher-order questions which encourage the development of answers.