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, the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), which provides a simple yet powerful way to teach students how to formulate, work with, and use their own questions.
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Steps of the QFT & Video Guide
The QFT on One Slide
Experiencing the QFT
Introducing the QFT into Your Classroom Practice
The Question Formulation Technique in Action
My QFT Journey: Putting Students’ Minds into Motion with their Questions
Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: One Small Change Can Yield Big Results
“How does the sun’s power get into you?” Using the QFT to Explore Energy with First Graders
How Questioning Can Drive Arguments, Productive Debate & Information Literacy Among Students
What is the QFT?
Asking questions is a step in creating change.
“This is the best, most useful training in 22 years of teaching!”
Why do you think we ask questions? So we can be curious about what we are learning and want to know more.
I believe all of us, including our students, should spend far more time thinking about the right questions to ask. Most of us spend too much time worrying about having a right answer in both our professional lives and personal lives. But the truth is, the answer can only be as good as the question asked.
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.
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