One educator asks a question that we hear often at the Right Question Institute: “at the end of the day what types of math questions get answered and what math actually gets learned? Are [students]…able to generate questions about a specific area of math that actually allows the student to learn – math?”
Teaching + Learning
Educators and collaborators reflect on their innovative use of RQI's strategiesHigh achievers, for the most part, long to answer questions. Answering questions is safe, comfortable, familiar. Asking questions? Not so safe.
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.