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Teaching + Learning
Watch QFT for primary source learning in action
Introductory webinar
This video shows a 12th-grade humanities teacher, Ling-Se Chesnakas, using the QFT with her class in Boston. Ling-Se used the QFT to prepare students for a Socratic seminar and help them with a writing assignment about the book "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz.
The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is a strategy that 250,000 educators worldwide are using to teach students how to formulate…
Lucy Canotas, a 4th grade teacher in Manchester, NH, used the QFT to learn more about what her students knew or did not know about fractions. This video shows Lucy using a visual Question Focus to stimulate students’ questions. She leads her class through each step of the Question Formulation Technique, all the way through their reflections at the end on what they learned and liked about the process.