Making Questions Flow
Are questioners born or made? What happens to the “born questioners” when they enter school at 5 years old? Do…
The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) for Summative Assessment
In this video Joshua Beer, an educator who teaches 8th grade in rural New Hampshire, uses the QFT for summative assessment purposes. Watch the QFT unfold as students address the Question Focus (QFocus), “Questions that should be asked about American imperialism at the turn of the 20th century.”
Inquiry: Helping Students Ask and Answer Their Own Questions
In this segment we’re introduced to the wonder, experiment, learn cycle. Tune in and get some powerful strategies for guiding…
Question-Asking as a Transformational Skill
Great Books Foundation presents Dr. Dan Rothstein, co-director of “The Right Question Institute, an education group which tackles key challenges…
A Pathway out of Poverty for Students in Low-Income Communities: Learning to Ask Questions
I know poverty. I’ve been on welfare. I’ve worked on the factory floor. I’ve been laid off. And I’ve had…
The Question Formulation Technique in Action
This video shows a 12th-grade humanities teacher, Ling-Se Chesnakas, using the QFT with her class in Boston. Ling-Se used the QFT to prepare students for a Socratic seminar and help them with a writing assignment about the book "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz.