Assessment for Learning: Strategic questioning This professional development module is one of five to be found on the Assessment for Learning website: www.curriculum.edu.au/assessment. There are two parts to the module: a datashow presentation, which should come first a workshop. In this module we will explore questioning as an assessment for learning strategy: that is, the use of questions as a tool to provide teachers with information about their students’ knowledge and skills in order to assist planning for future teaching and learning. The module will focus on: the role of questioning in assessment for learning the benefits of questioning to students the qualities of strategic questioning Bloom’s taxonomy as a questioning tool additional questioning strategies. (It is anticipated that the datashow presentation will take between 50 and 60 minutes.)