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Asking useful questions

Using questioning as a technique for effective teaching in ECE

The ability to ask good questions is a key resource in a teacher’s kete of teaching strategies.

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Knowing when to ask a question

Knowing when to ask a question (and when not to) can significantly influence the level of children’s engagement, however the nature of any questions asked is even more important than the timing. Poor questions can hi-jack the child’s agenda and redirect or constrain their learning.

Facilitated By

Barbara Watson (PhD)

Webinar Duration

Approximately 60 minutes

Skill Level

Suitable for ECE Educators

What will you learn?

Moving beyond the use of open-ended questions is critical in supporting sustained inquiry and exploration.

Join Barbara Watson who will explore a hierarchy of questions that will support you to frame questions for a broader and deeper range of purposes. Let’s also directly address the occasions when asking a question is inappropriate.

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About the presenters

Barbara Watson (PhD)

PhD; MEdAdmin; BEd (ECE); Dip.Tchg (Primary)

Barbara is a qualified early childhood and primary teacher and has owned and managed early childhood centres. Having worked as part of the EC Professional Support team at the Faculty of Education for 7 years, she has strong links with The University of Auckland. While in this role Barbara facilitated a variety of workshops and programmes for a wide range of ECE services and also lectured on a number of ECE papers.

Barbara has a passion for supporting teachers to make effective links between theory and practice. Her Masters thesis focused on leadership and adult education and her PhD investigated how induction and mentoring programmes are enacted in education and care services. Barbara works with centre leaders as a mentor, coach and external appraiser. 

What others said about this webinar:

Loved this webinar. It has confirmed that some of my practice is on the right track including using wait time, and modeling wondering about how to solve a problem or pondering working theories.
— GINA
A very helpful topic to revisit and keep practise going. I particularly enjoyed the end with the example of revisiting questions and comments. Bounce back to the child as much as possible.  
— MEGAN
This was my favourite webinar so far. I was concerned that there would be no information regarding non verbal tamariki, but then we got to that part of the video and sparked my interest. I have new plans for intentional questioning with non verbal children. I am excited to try them out and reflect.
— YINGFEN

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