The Right Question Institute

Asking questions is an essential — yet often overlooked — lifelong learning skill. It allows young people to think critically about the world around them, feel greater power and self-efficacy at school, and become more confident and ready to participate in civic life. Join the Right Question Institute and the Harvard Graduate School of Education this October for our online class, Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique. Register by October 3.

Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique Explore our programs — offering exceptional academic preparation, opportunities for growth, and the tools to make an impact.

This is a powerful example of combining the Question Formulation Technique with primary sources and a digital learning experience (from the National September 11 Memorial & Museum) to address a difficult subject and create space for students to ask questions and seek answers. Thank you for sharing Hibernian Private School!

How to you help students prepare themselves for anything? One way: Teach them how to ask questions. As Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana write in their book, Make Just One Change, "They will be better equipped to become successful, self-directed, lifelong learners. We can look forward to what we learn from them as they carry on researching, creating, building, problem solving, and thinking of timeless questions that still need to be answered and new questions that have not yet been asked."

Promoting students' ability to formulate questions in the classroom has a lot of benefits, according to the research. For those of you who are curious, we've compiled a short roundup of some recent research connected to question-asking in learning environments.

Research on the Impact of Student Questions on Learning - Right Question Institute Research on the Impact of Student Questions on Learning Field(s): Teaching + Learning Type: Experts in the Field What happens when students are taught to ask better questions?  The Right Question Institute (RQI) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to democratize access to the skill of asking...

Asking questions is an essential — yet often overlooked — lifelong learning skill. It allows young people to think critically about the world around them, feel greater power and self-efficacy at school, and become more confident and ready to participate in civic life. Join the Right Question Institute and the Harvard Graduate School of Education this July for our online class, Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique. Register by July 1.

Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique Explore our programs — offering exceptional academic preparation, opportunities for growth, and the tools to make an impact.