@RightQuestion Digest: The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in Early Childhood Education & Elementary School

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)!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.”

 

Watch the QFT unfold during this video of a fifth grade social sciences class in Jefferson County Public Schools Golden, Colorado. (H/T @ChandlerStu)

 

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