The main aim of the mat is to encourage students to ask
higher order questions, by giving them a variety of question starters; helping
them to construct their own questions.
Currently, students often ask closed questions or lower order
questions such as ‘knowledge and understanding’.
One of the main benefits of the mats- for both students and
teachers- is that each stage of the question mat can match the ability of the
pupils. For example ‘Knowledge and
Understanding’ Level 4 students might be asked to produce questions from. Where as ‘Evaluate’, level 6-7 students might
be asked to create their questions from.
These mats can be used, as an aid, in individual, paired,
group and whole class situations, by scaffolding students’ questioning.
For Ofsted purposes, it is also a great way of showing
progression- as students can be asked to produce questions from a lower
thinking skill at the beginning of the lesson and then be asked to move onto
the next stage, at the end of the lesson- basically moving through the levels.
For teaching purposes, it is a simple way of devising
questions for your lesson- before hand.
Also for ‘on the spot’ questioning, it is a great tool to target
individual students.
Finally, students can also use this tool as a way of leading
their own learning- in doing this they can ‘pass the question on’ and basically
answer a question with a question!
By Laura Daley
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