Student+Questioning

=**Student Questioning:**= This process usually includes a number of aspects, depending on the school’s current position at the start of the process.
 * Aim:** To assist schools to take deliberate informed action that will raise pupil questioning skills.
 * To assist schools/teachers to examine their beliefs and understanding about the role of questioning in learning and thinking.
 * To address the issue of what makes a good question and what makes an effective questioner.
 * Expose teachers to the QuESTioning rubric, give them a practical experience at writing and evaluating their own questions
 * Assist schools who decide that it is warranted, to carry out school-wide baseline assessment in question skills, provide a spreadsheet that allows easy school-wide data analysis
 * Provide or lead the initial moderation of questioning.
 * Support teachers in the development of inquiry or teaching units that are worded in such a manner to facilitate and support pupils in their questioning.
 * Assist teachers in classroom strategies to model good questioning, model self assessment of questioning and to facilitate good questioning practices in their own classrooms.