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?
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.
Sometimes, I have a lot of questions, and this way I can express those without being judged… I get to learn a lot more.
Their level of engagement in the activity and each other’s ideas was not only exhilarating, but literally heart-warming.
We’re three weeks into the semester, and students are becoming animated and engaged. And they appear to be developing into a community of thinkers. Thank you so much for teaching an effective technique that is so easy to incorporate.
For me, their questions and the young man’s comment made my day. I wanted the students to own the class. I wanted them to have a say in what we learn and how we learn it. After using the QFT just one time, I was already noticing a change in the engagement of my students.
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