It wasn’t until we attended a PD about questioning in the classroom that we understood how we could get our…
Teaching + Learning
Imagine starting your first unit of the year not with what students know, but with what they wonder. What would…
In math classrooms around the country and world, students using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) are asking questions like: “How…
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?”
High achievers, for the most part, long to answer questions. Answering questions is safe, comfortable, familiar. Asking questions? Not so safe.
“This is fun! Now I want to know more about this,” said one student. An international look at the Question Formulation Technique.