This document provides strategies for personalized questioning techniques that can be applied in lessons: 1) Plan key questions for students before lessons based on prior learning to challenge individual students. 2) Reveal answers and have students generate questions to match, then rank the questions by challenge and interest. 3) Encourage clarifying questions like "Why do you say that?" during paired or group work using Socratic questioning.

1. Personalised Questioning
Strategy Definition How could this be applied in my lessons?
Key
questions
Before you even start the lesson,
think about questions that will
challenge students or specific
students based on prior learning
(write them down if needed)
If this is the
answer...
Reveal just an answer (or series
of answers) and allow students
to create questions to match.
They could then be
ranked/grouped in terms of
challenge, interest etc
Socratic
questionin
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During any kind of paired work,
encourage students to work
towards clarifying their thinking
e.g. “Why do you say that?”
Hinge
questions
Plan to use a hinge question to
check progress. Could be a
closed question that is followed
up with a “why?” (mini white
boards/numbered heads
together would work well here)
Question
Continuum
On any given topic, groups
generate as many quality
questions as they can. These
could then be plotted on an x
and y axis (either in books, on
tables or on display boards) x =
interest level and y = difficulty
Just one
more
question
Give sentence stems to students
to generate their own follow up
questions: “Suppose we
knew...What would change
if...What happens when...? To
encourage deeper thinking.
Thunks Questions to initiate deeper
thinking e.g. If this character
where an object in a kitchen,
what would she be? Can you
ever walk on the same beach
twice?