What’s on the Questioning poster
A 6-row table: Technique · What it fixes.
Each technique fixes a specific failure of hands-up questioning.
- Cold call — Only volunteers think
- Wait time — Only the fast answer
- No opt out — Do not know ends it
- Say it again better — Half-formed answers stand
- Whole-class response — A sample of one
- Probing — Right answer, wrong reason
Three seconds of wait time after a question, and again after an answer, measurably lengthens responses. Most teachers wait under one second.
Questions about the Questioning poster
- What’s on the Questioning poster?
- A 6-row table: Technique · What it fixes. Each technique fixes a specific failure of hands-up questioning. Cold call — Only volunteers think; Wait time — Only the fast answer; No opt out — Do not know ends it; Say it again better — Half-formed answers stand; Whole-class response — A sample of one; Probing — Right answer, wrong reason. Three seconds of wait time after a question, and again after an answer, measurably lengthens responses. Most teachers wait under one second.
- Who is the Questioning poster for?
- Questioning belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning classroom practice can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Questioning poster?
- Use it when the same four pupils answer everything and results still surprise you. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Questioning belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Questioning?
- Checking Understanding, A Behaviour System and Cutting Load In A Lesson sit alongside Questioning in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Checking UnderstandingA Behaviour SystemCutting Load In A Lesson
- Is the Questioning poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Questioning downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Questioning poster print at?
- Questioning is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Questioning loses nothing.Printing guide
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