Promoting students' ability to formulate questions in the classroom has a lot of benefits, according to the research. We've compiled a short roundup of recent research connected to question-asking in learning environments.
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Educators and collaborators reflect on their innovative use of RQI's strategies
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Danny Delgado, a Media Center Specialist, reflects on how he used the QFT to guide summer campers to become the heroes of their own learning journey.
In this blog post, educator James Staton writes about how he values moments when he is wrong because they lead him to new lessons. Read more on his strategies to encourage all elementary students to explore their questions without fear of being wrong.
Explore this clickable, interactive unit plan from history teacher Johnny Walker's classroom to understand how you might incorporate the QFT with primary sources multiple times throughout a unit. See how you can center student questions in your curriculum.
In this lesson snapshot, a high school ESL 4 class delves into factory farming, sustainability, and the food industry through Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma. They use the QFT twice throughout the unit; once as a pre-reading exercise and later to unpack two juxtaposed primary sources images of farming then and now, armed with knowledge from the book.