Power Up Your Questioning offers a masterclass in transforming classroom questioning into
a powerful tool for learning. Combining practical strategies with cutting-edge insights from cognitive science, this book equips teachers to engage students, initiate critical thinking, and check understanding with precision. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the classroom, this invaluable guide will elevate your teaching practice and help you unlock the full potential of your students' thinking.

Teachers ask questions every lesson, every day and multiple times within a lesson! Therefore questioning should be a central focus of pedagogy, planning and professional development,
but it has not always received the attention it deserves. Power Up Your Questioning by Bruce Robertson is superb and guaranteed to help classroom teachers from those early in their career to more experienced teachers. It will also be very useful for leaders at all levels. As shown in this book, if we want better answers from the learners in front of us, we have to ask better questions. I wholeheartedly recommend this book; it will have a very positive impact on those that read it, reflect on it and act on it.

'Questions create thinking conditions, which means they create learning conditions.'

This brilliant book by Bruce Robertson shows us just how this is done. He masterfully weaves the evidence-informed ideas of edu-greats into pedagogy that teachers can incorporate into daily practices and discusses '20 key messages that all teachers and school leaders really need to know'. Robertson translates these key messages into actionable steps that provide insight into common pitfalls, power-up prompts, deeper-thinking questions, and trusted techniques. Furthermore, he gives us 10 recommended steps to get the most out of the book; it is as if he hands us a lesson plan to ensure that the 'quality of our questions promote desirable thinking' through the use of self-reflection and coaching.

Robertson states, 'Becoming a questioning expert takes years of deliberate practice and refinement.' Power Up Your Questioning not only speeds up the process of becoming a questioning expert, but it also stands as a reminder for experienced teachers, a blueprint for coaches, observable techniques for leaders, and most importantly, an avenue of lasting learning for our students.

'Great teaching ... is about eliciting rigorous evidence of where students are in their learning and responding accordingly.' Bruce Robertson artfully elicits evidence of where we are as teachers and guides us accordingly to become powerful questioning experts.