A Staff Development Workshop on “Questioning” conducted by Miss Jannie Tsang and Miss Leung Kit Yan of Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) for the teachers of Shatin Government Secondary School was held on 27 September 2022.The 2-hour Workshop had covered the relevant theories of questioning and various ways to enhance classroom interactions to promote students’ higher-order thinking skills. Examples of different levels of guiding questions for developing students’ metacognition in various subjects had been suggested. Video clips displaying how teachers could ask probing questions based on students’ responses had been shown to facilitate discussion. The teachers had engaged in devising questions with different levels of cognitive complexity during the workshop. The active participation of the teachers in sharing ideas and asking questions made the workshop interactive and fruitful.
