“Flipping the classroom” is a relatively recent innovation that requires students to watch videos of lectures or lessons individually before class, then using the following class time to practice problems and critical thinking in groups. Teachers, instead of giving initial lectures, facilitate group learning and are available to answer students’ questions. The flipped classroom transforms […]
March 19, 2014
Integrating the QFT and Bloom’s Taxonomy to Increase Reading Comprehension With My Fourth Grade Male Readers
Two years ago I was focusing on boosting reading engagement among my struggling fourth grade male readers. As part of my interventions, I encouraged my students to read graphic novels, partner read, and write about their reading. After a few months of experimenting with these interventions and collecting data, I noticed great increases in reading […]
March 11, 2014
Controversy as Catalyst for Questioning: Students Question the Rolling Stone Cover after Marathon Bombing
This Tuesday, our weekly post from the field comes from Matt Parrilli (on RQI Network @mparrilli), an English department chair in Illinois. by Matt Parrilli Why do they make him look like a celebrity?” “Was the date and location of the bombing significant to him?” “What did his family do to fail him?” “Does where […]
February 18, 2014
What If Students Ask Silly Questions? Question Formulation and Classroom Management
This blog is part two in a four part blog series from an educator in the field, Jay Corrigan. Over the next few weeks, Jay will share how his school community has integrated the Question Formulation Technique into their classroom practice. Read part 1 here where Jay described a scaffolded approach that starts in kindergarten and […]
February 4, 2014
Reflections on the QFT, the Simplest Approach to Student Centered Learning
The Right Question Institute offers professional development sessions across the country on Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Recently, one of our guest associates, Richard Wallace (@wally), facilitated a session and then offered his reflection on the Question Formulation Technique as a student centered learning strategy for any school environment. In his reflection, he […]
December 18, 2013
Lessons from the American Public Health Association Conference
What do a physician who works with farmworkers, a researcher studying health among incarcerated individuals, a nurse working with cancer patients, and a community health worker helping low-income patients find subsidized housing all have in common? They all stopped by the RQI booth at the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference or attended our presentation, […]
June 6, 2012
inQuiring minds #001
Here’s a snapshot of blogs, articles, ideas, opportunities and interesting thought pieces we’ve recently discovered on the web. We invite you to send us a quick line on what you find as well! Don’t forget to join the conversation anytime—participate in our Educator Network, find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. THE POWER […]
July 30, 2009
Teaching the RQP Civic Engagement Strategy and Learning Lifelong Skills in a Women’s Prison
Sheila teaches adult education at the county jail in Wilmington Indiana. Her courses are the only education inmates get while they’re in jail; she teaches them to read, prepares them for the GED, overall college readiness and life skills. Sheila was trained to teach adult education using traditional methods, focusing on independent study, testing, drilling. […]
