Facilitate Student Curiosity and Engagement
The skill of question asking is far too rarely deliberately taught in school. We have worked with and learned from educators to develop a teaching strategy, called the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), that provides a simple yet powerful way to teach students how to formulate, work with, and use their own questions.
What is the QFT?
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Experiencing the QFT
Introducing the QFT into Your Classroom Practice
Steps of the QFT & Video Guide
Private: Better Questions, Better Decisions Voter Engagement Workshop
The Question Formulation Technique in Action
Asking Questions in the Age of Google Webinar
My QFT Journey: Putting Students’ Minds into Motion with their Questions
Making Questions Flow
“How does the sun’s power get into you?” Using the QFT to Explore Energy with First Graders
Build STEM Skills and Nurture Students’ Scientific Curiosity With the Question Formulation Technique
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I really enjoyed the QFT lesson. I felt empowered because I was the one coming up with the questions, not just the teacher. My favorite part of the lesson was the “no judgment zone.” It made me feel more relaxed and more open to ask and answer questions. In the future, I hope that we do more of these lessons.
A principal point of big questions is to inspire learners to ask them as well as pursue them. Make Just One Change by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana puts this agenda front and center. Their subtitle telegraphs the ‘one change’: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions.
The way it made me feel was smart because I was asking good questions and giving good answers.
Why do you think we ask questions? So we can be curious about what we are learning and want to know more.
I do think that the QFT process did open up students to be inquisitive, reflective thinkers, and these characteristics permeated into how students approached learning in any content area or aspect of school.
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