Asking good questions is a key skill for teachers. Good questions can prompt students’ thinking. Questions also help teachers to know what students know. These videos show teachers using different sorts of questions to extend their students’ thinking, while also listening carefully to their answers.
You may also want to read the Key Resource ‘Using questioning to promote thinking’.
A teacher talks about how he develops his and his students’ skills in asking and answering questions in class.
A teacher uses a range of questioning techniques in his geometry class.
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