Professional Learning:
Moving from Compliance to
Engagement
How do I evaluate a
Lesson?
Focus 2: Using Effective Question Techniques
Habits Are Hard To Break
A teacher with 20 years of experience
will have asked something like a half a
million questions in her career. And
when you’ve done something the
same way, half a million times, it’s
quite difficult to start doing it another
way.
Questioning
O On Average, a teacher asks 400 questions
a day (one third of their time)
O Most of the questions are answered in
less than one second (Hastings, 2003)
O 60% recall facts and 20% are procedural
(Hattie, 2012)
O Most answers are right or wrong
Talk With a Partner
O How can I improve the quality of
my questions and responses ?
O Each give at least one
improvement
Next Week’s Session
O Choose ONE lesson you taught:
O Record the questions you
planned
O What was your purpose for the
questions during that lesson?
O Record responses you gave to
student answers