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5. Check for Understanding

INTRODUCTION

Rosenshine places significant emphasis on the importance of this process as covered in the WalkThru Check for Understanding. Importantly it takes the form of asking questions such as ‘what have you understood?’ and not the rhetorical ‘have you understood?’. The process has two deep outcomes: 

a) it allows students to elaborate their thinking, augmenting connections between different ideas and concepts, deepening their understanding 

b) it alerts the teacher to aspects of the material that might need to be re-taught. 

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Walkthrus that support Principle 5.

Teaching and Learning Playbook Videos

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Additional Resources

Videos

Blogs and Articles

Checking for Understanding – Why it is important

InnerDrive: An Overview of Effective Questioning in the Classroom

Teacher Toolkit: Unlocking the Power of Effective Questioning in the Classroom

Chartered College:Skilful questioning: The beating heart of good pedagogy

Chartered College: Questioning to stretch and challenge in a secondary classroom

Podcasts