Questions at the Core: Extending the Question Formulation Technique to Sustain an Inquiry-based Culture in Schools | Harvard University

Meaningful engagement begins to take root when all stakeholders can ask questions, participate in decision-making and feel a genuine sense of agency --whether as policy-makers, teachers, or those devising professional learning.

Questions at the Core: Extending the Question Formulation Technique to Sustain an Inquiry-based Culture in Schools picks up where our popular course Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique, leaves off. In this three-week course, you will learn how to scale up and expand your expertise with the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to jumpstart and create a deeper culture of inquiry: in your classroom, school, district, and/or organization. The program will prepare you to:

• Strengthen and refine your QFT skills;
• Make Question Formulation a core element of teaching and professional learning — with learners, community members, and others;
• Develop an action plan to expand the use of the QFT in either your classroom and/or school culture.