The Right Question Institute (RQI) is excited to launch our campaign to ensure that the Question Formulation Technique is used…
Teaching + Learning
By Joshua Beer I have been enjoying Question Week and the extra reason to focus on students generating their own questions.…
The Right Question Institute Mentioned in The Atlantic In, “Educating an Original Thinker,” The Atlantic’s education columnist Jessica Lahey interviews Wharton Professor Adam…
Jim Bentley shares how an experience with one student's crucial question changed how he thought about the PBL process.
This discussion is rich with original thinking and student engagement, no doubt due to the fact that because students had been answering questions they had developed themselves, they were personally invested in the learning process. It is one of my favorite discussions of the year. What a gift QFT is!
Lucy Canotas, a fourth-grade teacher in Manchester, New Hampshire, used the QFT to learn more about what her students knew or did not know about fractions. This video shows Canotas using a visual Question Focus to stimulate students’ questions. She leads her class through each step of the Question Formulation Technique, all the way through their reflections at the end on what they learned and liked about the process.