Igniting Questioning in the Classroom
I am quite grateful that I am a Spanish teacher — technically a required elective class— so I feel I…
Teaching With Controversy: Using Questions to Promote Dialogue
Our charge was to coordinate with 38 regional mentors throughout Illinois to provide free professional development to facilitate implementation of…
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
I introduced the QFT (Question Formulation Technique) in Science today using a strategy that I’d never tried before. I used…
Student Ownership
When I walked into Joe Polanski’s AP Human Geography class, students were working in groups of 4 on their Chromebooks…
Sparking Inquiry is the First Step: Here’s How DC Public School Teachers Sustain it
Mr. Ramsey sparked inquiry by allowing students to experience freedom first in his classroom simulation. There are numerous ways inquiry can be…
Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
As an advocate for inquiry learning, I am in total agreement with Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana: student-led questioning is…