Questioning in the Secondary School

Teachers ask thousands of questions in a year. The ability to ask intelligent and searching questions, to use questioning for different purposes and to know what to do with the answer is crucial to teachers of all subjects. It is one of the core teaching skills that informs good practice and can help pupils' learning. In Questioning in the Secondary School, Ted Wragg and George Brown explore: the range of questions that teachers can ask, from those requiring simple recall of information right up to those that stimulate complex reasoning, imagination and speculation the various strategies open to teachers that, through a combination of activities and discussion points, help them to build up a repertoire of ideas, approaches and techniques which are suitable for various situations the ways in which teachers can evaluate the effectiveness of their questions in the classroomWragg, E. C. is the author of 'Questioning in the Secondary School' with ISBN 9780415249522 and ISBN 041524952X.