TLC 2 Developing Understanding

After choosing 3 of the 'developing understanding' tools in TLC 1 to apply in their lessons, staff were asked to reflect on the tools they had chosen and the impact this had had on developing their learners understanding. Staff shared great evidence of good practice. 

We then took a deeper look into the importance of questioning to developing students understanding. A video was shown which looks into different styles of questioning.

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/questioning-in-the-classroom

As a group we discussed how staff could encourage students to formulate and ask their own questions, as a means of mediating their own learning. The video was followed by sharing 2 blog posts on effective questioning to develop understanding.

We looked in detail at the blooms question matrix and how this could be used to formulate higher order thinking questions to students. Staff used their blooms question matrix to decide if certain questions were low or high order thinking questions, through an engaging kahoot.

Finally staff were given 4 further ideas that they could trial before the final TLC. They were then given some time to plan how and when they would use 1 or 2 more strategies within their lessons, focusing on developing understanding.

Roz and Nat