To All My Teacher Friends

I was looking for help about HOW TO TEACH students to write good questions.

Specifically for Cranium.

This newsletter about a BOOK in the Harvard Education Letter helped

Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions

One small change can yield big results

By DAN ROTHSTEIN and LUZ SANTANA

Basic skeleton/outline that could be helpful - perhaps?

The Question Formulation Technique
Dupuy, Muhammad, and many other teachers are using a step-by-step process that we and our colleagues at the Right Question Institute have developed called the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). This technique helps students learn how to produce their own questions, improve them, and strategize on how to use them 
(see sidebar “Question Formulation Technique”).

Question Formulation Technique - Produce Your Questions

Four essential rules for producing your own questions:
• Ask as many questions as you can.
• Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer the questions.
• Write down every question exactly as it is stated.
• Change any statement into a question.

Improve Your Questions
• Categorize the questions as closed- or open-ended.
• Name the advantages and disadvantages of each type of question.
• Change questions from one type to another.

Prioritize the Questions
• Choose your three most important questions.
• Why did you choose these three as the most important?

Next Steps • How are you going to use your questions?   LINK TO ARTICLE is http://www.hepg.org/hel/article/507#home

 I am going to use it first...will let you know how it goes!

Ms.Wells