Starting with A for answers (are all answers acceptable?), this film takes an alphabetical journey through the key issues affecting group work, and features eight teachers from across the UK sharing their tried and tested strategies for success. For example, how do you create the right classroom culture in which children feel safe to answer? And what are the different ways you can differentiate your questions? And how do you get the shy children at the back of the class to answer a question if only the confident ones put their hands up? During the course of the programme the teachers also talk about how they deal with misconceptions; all the different kinds of questions they ask; the theory behind effective questioning; and last, but by no means least, what can go wrong with questioning?

Video Series: Primary A-Z of...
Release Date 2008