Identify questions to ask your students for today’s topic: interpersonal communication. Have a framework for analysing / understanding the quality of your questioning.

1. Expert training – approaches to
teaching and learning 2
Questioning

2. Aims of the session
• Identify questions to ask your students for
today’s topic: interpersonal communication
• Have a framework for analysing / understanding
the quality of your questioning

3. What can go wrong in
asking questions?
• Think of when teachers have been bad at
questioning
• Can you give examples of bad questioning
practice?
• What happens to students when questioning is
not good?

4. Bloom’s taxonomy
creation
evaluation
analysis
application
understanding
remembering

5. Bloom’s taxonomy – verbs
• Remembering – list, locate, name, describe
• Understanding – illustrate, explain, compare
• Application – generalise, infer, show, use
• Analyse – select, arrange, organise, outline
• Evaluation – assess, justify, critique, judge
• Creation – design, compose, plan, hypothesise
(source:
http://iss.schoolwires.com/cms/lib4/NC01000579/Centricity/Domain/1366/BloomQ
uestions_000.pdf)

6. Question types
• Remembering – What policies …?
• Understanding – What was the main reason …?
• Application – Can you develop guidelines based
on…?
• Analysis – How is … similar to …?
• Evaluation – Assess the value of ….
• Creation – Can you see a possible solution to…?

7. Formulate questions
• In your pairs formulate one question between
you on the topic of emotional intelligence and
transactional analysis for each of the categories
in Bloom’s taxonomy

8. Plan your questioning
• How can you avoid the problems in questioning
we identified at the beginning of the session?
• List strategies that will enable you as a trainer to
do this