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?
This is the first time I have written to any source of one of my teaching methods to thank them for providing me with such a powerful book to unlock the learning process… I have been teaching since 1977. I have studied techniques and pedagogy. In all that time, I have never found anything that was so profoundly influential in changing how students learn. Not only did it immediately engage the students in their own learning, it stayed with them throughout a 17-week semester…
Yesterday, a student who hadn’t said a word all summer led his group in identifying open and closed questions during the QFT.
I have seen students that are on IEPs or been receiving Title 1 support excel in the classroom when participating in the QFT. I would have never discovered what was going on in their brain if we didn’t allow for this opportunity.
It helps me by getting me to think about questions on my own. Also, it gets my mind in motion to think about the questions other people make.
Sometimes, I have a lot of questions, and this way I can express those without being judged… I get to learn a lot more.
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