AN AUDIT OF CLASSROOM QUESTIONING

Class

Maths - Splitting Numbers Year 2/3

Teacher

Miss Bridget Walker

Activity

Date

13-04-2016

Number of occasions*

Comment

The teacher...
... makes explicit the key
questions of the lesson
...asks closed questions
...asks open questions
...asks questions that
demand higher-order
thinking
...asks questions to prompt
students to further
responses
...waits for student response
after asking a question
...builds on student
responses, even if they are
wrong
...distributes questions
around the class
...acknowledges student
responses positively
The students...
...ask questions of the
teacher
...ask questions of each
other

Example of Scaffolding for the

different level groups in the
class e.g differentiation learning
of the lesson.

Preservice teacher personal reflection:

Students engaged using their show-me boards. Students were rarely off task. If students
become off task they were quickly and promptly redirected as per the classroom behaviour
management system. It was fantastic to observe the questioning as it become apparent to me
as a pre-service teacher how important it is to ask questions of the students to make them
think about what they are doing, the questions they are answering, to create higher order
thinking and to embed the knowledge for long term memory.