A Short-Cut to Student Engagement: Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions

Saturday February 7, 2015
9:45 - 10:45 AM
Room 255BC

Imagine classrooms alive with students actively asking questions, learning to improve their questions and strategizing about how to use their questions. Students who learn to ask questions become more engaged, take ownership of their learning and learn more. This session offers an introduction to an evidence-based strategy, the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), that produces these results. The QFT is widely used by teachers in Title I Schools who value being able to learn it one day and implement the next. In an interactive learning process, you will have the chance to experience the QFT, review how it is used in classrooms from K-12, and see a short video of its use in an urban school. Participants will also have the opportunity to reflect on the importance of all students learning to ask their own questions and identify ways they can share the strategy immediately in their districts and schools.

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Lavada Berger

Lavada Berger, B.A., Harvard College, is the Deputy Director of the Right Question Institute. Before joining RQI, she was a third grade teacher at North Star Academy in Newark, NJ. Previously, Lavada was a strategy consultant for Monitor Deloitte focused on effective problem-solving and growth.
Luz Santana

Luz Santana is Co-Director of the Right Question Institute and Co-Author of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions, Harvard Education Press, 2011. Luz has an M.A. from Springfield College School of Human Services and was a Community Fellow at M.I.T.
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common core standards, differentiated instruction, effective leaders, elementary education, Professional Development, school improvement, secondary education