A collection of questioning strategies for use in the classroom.

1. 2Q
Q: What did you do well?
So what you are saying is...
Q: What would you do
differently next time?
So what you are saying is...

2. 2Q
Q: What is a formula?
So what you are saying is...
Q: Why do we use them
to solve problems?
So what you are saying is...

3. Q: What are you
wondering about?

4. 2Q
Q: What is a graph?
So what you are saying is...
Q: What do graphs have?
So what you are saying is...

5. 2Q
Q: What did you find out?
So what you are saying is...
Q: What do you want to
find out?
So what you are saying is...

6. 2Q
Q: What do you do?
So what you are saying is...
Q: What are you going to
do?
So what you are saying is...

7. 3Q
Q: What did you connect to?
So what you are saying is...
Q: How did you connect?
So what you are saying is...
Q: So what?

8. So what you are saying is...

9. 3 2 1
Things Things you Big
you know are worried question
about

10. Walking conversation
With your partner go for a short walk and discuss the
following questions. Be back in 2 minutes (so keep an
eye on the time!):
1. Introduce yourself.
2.How long have you been in
Beijing?
3. What company are you with?
4. Who is your child in 5T?

11. What?
So what?
Now what?

12. Question:
What do you think is the answer?
Line yourself up in order from the
smallest to largest amount.

13. Provocative questions
• Why do you believe that?
• Could you give an example of that?
• What reasons do you have for saying that?
• Could you clarify that?
• Where did you find this out?
• How do you know that?

14. Think, pair, share
1. Think by yourself about this.
2. Share your thoughts/ideas with a
partner.
3. Share some of the ideas you heard/
shared with the whole class.

15. Have a problem that you
need help with?
1. What do you need to achieve?
2. What’s happening right now?
3. What could you do?
4. What will you do?
5. How will you do this?
6. How will you keep this going?

16. Critical questions
1.What did you do?
2.What else could you do?
3.What else will you do?

17. Next steps...
1.What could I do?
2.What will I do?
3.How will I do it?
4.When will I do it?

18. Next steps...
1.What could you do?
2.What will you do?
3.How will you do it?
4.When will you do it?

19. Shopping for ideas
1. One person stays at your table/
location and tries to sell ideas to others.
2. The other person goes shopping for
ideas, listening to people trying to
convince them to ‘buy’ their ideas.
3. If you want to buy an idea, take it
back and add it to your own list of ideas.

20. 6 Steps to Success
Ask yourself these questions
to help you or your group Which step do
you need go
be successful. back and think
What are your deeper about?
personal goals?
What could you
do to achieve
the goal?
How do you
know if you are
successful?
What is the
goal of this
task?

21. What have you
done today?
What have you
found out?
What will you
do next?

22. What does a
great listener do?
Why do you
think that?