Teaching & Learning

Overview

 Are you willing to transform your questioning practice, and see real impact in just six weeks? 

The structure is intentionally disciplined but manageable. Each week includes a short essential task (approximately 15 minutes), alongside classroom practice and optional opportunities to deepen learning through collaboration and further exploration. By the end of the Challenge, teachers will have gathered evidence of change, reflected on impact, and identified clear next steps for sustaining improvement.  

Please note that bookings for this course will be made internally, do not book through the website.

Our Aims

• The Great Teaching Questioning Challenge is built around a simple principle: meaningful improvement in classroom practice happens when teachers focus deliberately on one area, engage with the evidence, implement changes with intention, and reflect on impact over time.  

• Across six weeks, participating teachers will use the Great Teaching Toolkit learning platform to diagnose their current questioning practice, explore research-informed strategies, implement and refine a chosen technique, and evaluate its impact on student thinking and participation. 

• The aim is not perfection, but progress; grounded in evidence, focused on practice, and visible in the classroom.  

Course Leader

Catherine Hydon
Director of the Institute

Catherine's areas of specialism are teaching and learning, professional development and leadership development for staff of all career stages. She is passionate about ensuring that staff receive high quality professional development and enjoys creating opportunities for collaboration which enable pupils and staff to flourish. 

Prior to her current role she worked as a Senior Leader and Subject Leader and she has over twenty years of experience of teaching secondary English.