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)!
Franklin teachers used new playground as focus of inquiry to engage in questioning last week @RightQuestion pic.twitter.com/LWZwdmVM6L
— MAdams (@MelroseCurricul) October 13, 2015
The 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.
Helping students turn statements into questions by reinforcing the 4 rules of @RightQuestion QFT #november11 pic.twitter.com/BuVbwxkrwz
— Darren Elves (@DarrenElves) November 3, 2015
Using @RightQuestion QFT to teach Gr 1's to differentiate between BIG (open) and quick (closed) questions #ahamoment pic.twitter.com/1AGQlzKuwf
— Darren Elves (@DarrenElves) October 8, 2015
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.
1st graders using QFT. Understanding Open/Closed Questions. #inquiry @NoviVillageOaks @RothsteinDan @RightQuestion pic.twitter.com/Esja6RFP3u
— Myla Lee (@MyTLee3) October 29, 2015
Tchrs used QFT to empower 1st gr to question. #inquiry #studentvoice @RightQuestion @NoviVillageOaks @NoviAcademics pic.twitter.com/6jifwU45Tz
— Myla Lee (@MyTLee3) October 22, 2015
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.”
RQI Question Formulation Technique at North Belt Elementary @HumbleISDPD pic.twitter.com/trUi2T9SIi
— Rachel Clarke (@BilingualRachel) October 20, 2015
Watch the QFT unfold during this video of a fifth grade social sciences class in Jefferson County Public Schools Golden, Colorado. (H/T @ChandlerStu)
.@RightQuestion is crushing it in Jeffco Schools. View this video of the #qft in a 5th grade social sciences class https://t.co/aykToolIcm
— Stuart Chandler (@ChandlerStu) October 23, 2015
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