To investigate your use of questioning within your setting

Aim

To investigate your use of questioning within your setting.

Evidence and reflection

You might wish to use the audio recording from Reflective activity 12.2 in Refelctive Teaching in Early Eaduction. Alternatively, create another audio-recording where you are working with a child or children, either on a one-to-one basis, in a small group, or during a whole-class episode of teaching and learning. Analyse the recording using the following questions:

1. What types of questions did I use to support the child’s/children’s learning?
2. What did the children learn; how, and why?
3. How did I extend thinking/learning?
4. Which specific questioning techniques did I use?

Extension

What are the implications for your use of questioning in your future practice? Do you need to focus on the types of question you ask and incorporate them within your planning? How will you target specific children to ensure you are asking them the ‘right’ questions?

More in this chapter

• To analyse a language episode in your setting or placement
• To investigate whether your setting or placement setting provides a stimulating, welcoming, language
• To consider how children are supported to extend and develop their oral language within your setting
• To consider the extent to which you listen attentively to the children in your setting
• To reflect upon how you can use questioning to extend young children’s thinking
• To investigate whether your setting provides a participatory, active, language-rich environment