We are delighted to announce the release of our 2024 Impact Report. Teach2030 is brought to you by The Commonwealth Education Trust. This annual report is an essential part of measuring the effectiveness of our work, which we do under 3 overarching categories: This year, we are celebrating. Our reach, enrolment and improvement levels are […]
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Our new competition course ‘Asking Questions in Your Classroom’ is completely free! It encourages you to use more effective questions by considering what a question is and consider its purpose in the classroom. Learn about different types of questions, including open and closed, before discussing Bloom’s Taxonomy. Hear about scaffolding, which is the process of
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Questioning is a very effective teaching tool that we can use in our classrooms regularly. We can also use questioning to reach all levels of learners and attainment as long as we ensure that we are being mindful of our audience. It would not be appropriate to pose a higher order question to one of
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As educators it is our role to encourage our learners to become independent and questioning citizens of society. To this end we need to guide our students towards a higher level of thinking and working. Regarding Bloom’s Taxonomy, the obvious starting point with our students is to clarify their understanding – asking students to recall
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When we consider questioning in our classrooms, it is important to understand the different types of questions and what purposes we use them for. We frequently ask a variety of questions to our students but we must be mindful of what we are trying to achieve with our questions and the best type of question
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When we hear a pedagogical term such as this, it can make us feel unsure and insecure about new knowledge and teaching methodologies, however it is very likely that we are already practising Bloom’s Taxonomy in our classrooms on a daily basis. So, what is Bloom’s taxonomy? The most famous researcher of higher-level thinking was
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Questions are a frequent feature of speech in classrooms, whether from the teacher or the student, so it is important that we use our questions effectively to promote learning and progress. Generally, we assume that it is the role of the teacher to ask the questions in the classroom; this could be in the form
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As a teacher we are constantly asking questions in the classroom for different reasons and different purposes, such as for assessment and understanding purposes, behavioural management purposes or general well-being purposes. It can also be said that not only is it the role of the teacher to ask questions but that of the student too.
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Questions in the classroom take on a new significance for us as education providers and we should all be aware of this. As teachers, we pose questions towards our students as well as towards our colleagues regularly, so they definitely have a new meaning and impact. Questions in the Classroom When reflecting on our teaching
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Asking questions is a daily and often unconscious style of speaking for us, but as teachers asking questions takes on a whole new meaning. As teachers, we need to re-evaluate the purpose and meaning behind our questions and take into consideration our audience, with more mindfulness and awareness. So, why do we ask questions? This
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