The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in Early Childhood Education
Teachers at Franklin Early Childhood Center, Melrose, MA (@MelroseCurricul) used a playground as their Question Focus (QFocus)! https://twitter.com/MelroseCurricul/status/653725267299581952The QFT in Elementary School
Primary teacher Darren Elves (@DarrenElves) shared an example of students following rule 4 of the QFT: Change any statement into a question. Last month he also used the QFT to have his students differentiate between open-ended and closed-ended questions. https://twitter.com/DarrenElves/status/661424920446894081 https://twitter.com/DarrenElves/status/651975129082150912 The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) can help first graders produce and develop their own questions. Myla Lee (@MyTLee3), a National Faculty Member of The Buck Institute, passed along these examples from Novi, MI of first graders' questions elicited through using the QFT. https://twitter.com/MyTLee3/status/659756762321559552 https://twitter.com/MyTLee3/status/657261291988480000 Abigail Moore (@amoorek), a first grade teacher at an international school in Kuwait, discusses the need for, “having conversations with [her] students about what meaningful questioning sounds like.” She mentions Warren Berger’s work (@GlimmerGuy) on questions and the Right Question Institute’s Educator Network. Read her blog here. A Dual Language Bilingual Elementary Specialist from Humble, TX, Rachel Clarke (@BilingualRachel), shared students’ questions derived from the QFocus, “The Creative Genius of Shel Silverstein.” https://twitter.com/BilingualRachel/status/656469770892673027 Watch the QFT unfold during this video of a fifth grade social sciences class in Jefferson County Public Schools Golden, Colorado. (H/T @ChandlerStu) https://twitter.com/ChandlerStu/status/657646750375768064 Our weekly digest will keep you up to speed on the Right Question Institute’s latest news. If you have written a blog about your experience using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), have pictures of the QFT in action, or have other content that you think should be featured in an upcoming digest please share on Twitter @RightQuestion or by email (with the subject header RQI Digest) Interns@rightquestion.org