What are you wondering when you hear…?: Student Engagement in a Project-Based Learning Primary Classroom
Inquiry-based learning has been getting a lot of attention lately for student engagement and developing 21st Century skills. Rather than…
“So Much More to Learn”: Boosting Student Engagement in Middle Schoolers
Joshua Beer discovered the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) while searching for more ways to integrate questions into his classroom. A…
The Right Questions
Julie Grimm, a teacher at Salem Avenue Elementary School in Hagerstown, Maryland, was concerned that many of her 2nd grade…
RQI in ASCD’s Educational Leadership
“I heard questions that I never would have come up with.” Critical thinking and questioning are foundational skills that too…
Inquiring Minds: Curiosity as a Catalyst to Discovery
written and compiled by Jane Santa Cruz This issue of InQuiring Minds reaches back to explore that initial feeling of…
Using the QFT in the Professional Development of Librarians
When I was a building librarian, my partner and I always wanted students to develop those metacognitive skills in developing…