How can schools develop a questioning culture?
A questioning culture is one in which the school community encourages and values questioning, critical thinking and intellectual curiosity. ‘If you want to accelerate learning in any endeavour, you concentrate on the group’ (Hargreaves and Fullan, 2012).
I’ve been digging into the available research, identifying some fantastic strategies, and bringing them together into a sequence of ideas all teachers can use in their classrooms.
Towards the end of the book, moving from general classroom questioning strategies to techniques used in group or individual situations, I offer a timetable of ideas to align with curriculum planning.
All teachers pose approximately 300 questions per day.
Push any teacher further and ask them to name one or two techniques, and you may get one or two responses. Push them even further and ask them how many different types of questioning strategies they have embedded into the teacher-DNA (for automaticity) and we discover we still have some work to do.
