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.
High School (9 – 12)
by Quentin Flokstra As a high school humanities teacher in a small school, I do a lot of projects. I like…
A couple of years ago, I found myself extremely frustrated that so many of the topics and questions of my classes were generated by me.
In addition to learning facts and figures, students in my class are asked to think like historians and other social scientists, both posing and investigating questions that they generate.
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This QFT on a controversial, current event has been the most rewarding teaching I have done this year due to the desire it instilled in my students to be in a constant state of asking and answering their own questions.