High achievers, for the most part, long to answer questions. Answering questions is safe, comfortable, familiar. Asking questions? Not so safe.
Teaching + Learning
Educators and collaborators reflect on their innovative use of RQI's strategies
How can the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) be not only transformative for students, but also for teachers and adult learners?
Teacher-librarian Jennifer Brickey shares 4 remixes of the QFT to best serve teachers and students.
When students ask their own questions, it sparks curiosity, independence, and self-confidence, cultivating students’ ownership over their own learning. This is a shift that just makes sense. So how does an instructional coach, like myself, create this shift and promote curious conversations in the classroom?
Professor Sun Ezzell integrates the QFT into her writing fundamentals course for two different purposes.
As a former classroom teacher with experience in the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), I decided to incorporate the QFT as a tool to focus students’ enthusiasm and work in a way that would guide our thinking and vision, projects, and work.