Questioning with Trevor Bond

http://ictnz.com/

Trevor raised some interesting thoughts about questioning. Curriculum delivery. Skills and values. The session was excellent and thought provoking.

I really appreciated the practical elements to his presentation. Below are my notes:


Questioning is one if not the most important strategy we should teach in our schools.


So What:
Facilitate more to encourage questioning.
Value of the teachable moment?
Teach the questioning skills.

The Questioning skills -

1. Identify the need or problem (write statements of need)
2. Identify the key words (relevant contextual vocabulary)
3. Ask a range of relevant questions (Open/Closed etc.)
4. Take them to a variety of appropriate sources
5. Persist, editing questions as necessary until they acquire the needed information.

What is a good question:

• Is relevant
• Gets the information that is needed.
• Can be taken to intelligent and non-intelligent sources. (People=intelligent Book/google=non-intelligent)

What is a poor question:
Questions that require an intelligent source to use the context to decode the intention.

• Where can I find it? What skills do I need? How do I get there?

Modelling is the most important teaching thing. We model poorly but get away with it due to the context!

Question Matrix
Trevor also introduced his question matrix (but my laptop battery failed so had to stop taking notes). Check it out here.