Classroom Question Wheel

Subject-independent by design

Every question here works whether the lesson was about photosynthesis, the Treaty of Versailles or quadratic equations. None of them mention any content, so one wheel covers every lesson you teach.

They are also all open. There is no question here with a single correct answer a student can get wrong, which is what makes them safe to use with the random student picker — being called on at random is far less threatening when the question cannot be failed.

Several are metacognitive on purpose — "what's still confusing", "what did you change your mind about". Those tell you more about whether the lesson landed than any comprehension question will.

What's on the Classroom Question Wheel wheel

All 16 options are on the wheel to start with. Edit, delete or add to them — the wheel redraws as you type.

• What surprised you about this?
• What's still confusing?
• How would you explain this to a younger student?
• What's one example from real life?
• What would happen if the opposite were true?
• What question would you ask an expert?
• How does this connect to last week?
• What's the most important word here, and why?
• What would you want to learn next?
• Where might someone go wrong with this?
• Can you summarise it in one sentence?
• What evidence supports this?
• Who does this matter to, and why?
• What's a good analogy for this?
• What did you change your mind about?
• What would you tell yourself before this lesson?

Two wheels, one routine

The setup most teachers end up with:

1. This wheel on one device or one tab for the question.
2. The random student picker for who answers, with remove-after-spin on so everyone is asked once.

Spin the question, spin the student, wait. The pause after the question is where the thinking happens, and the wheel gives you a natural reason to leave it.

For exit tickets, spin one question at the end and have everyone write an answer on a slip. Turn on remove-after-spin and you get a different closing question every lesson for sixteen lessons.