Students who learn to ask their own questions become more curious, take ownership of their learning, and demonstrate greater comprehension of challenging content. The ability to ask one’s own questions is, indeed, one of the most important lifelong learning skills a student can acquire in the course of their education and, yet, it is rarely deliberately taught to all students.
Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions, an online course taught through the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will offer a differentiated active learning experience in the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), a simple yet robust method for teaching students to ask better questions that was developed by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana through years of trial and error and practice-based research.