It wasn’t until we attended a PD about questioning in the classroom that we understood how we could get our…
Lower Elementary (K – 2)
How many times has a teacher posed, “Are there any questions?” – only to be met with deafening silence from…
When students ask their own questions, it sparks curiosity, independence, and self-confidence, cultivating students’ ownership over their own learning. This is a shift that just makes sense. So how does an instructional coach, like myself, create this shift and promote curious conversations in the classroom?
Primary source learning can be a rich, engaging way for students to develop their historical thinking skills. Whether the primary source…
In PBL, high quality projects begin with a launch-- an engaging entry experience to the project that “hooks” student engagement. This first phase of the project provides a wonderful opportunity for the Question Formulation Technique (QFT).
Here are two quick examples of how educators are driving adoption of the QFT in science and social studies as…