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Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to footer Right Question Institute Sign Up | Login Strategy What is the QFT? What is the VIDT? Impact Our Work Teaching + Learning Higher Education Self-Advocacy Voter Engagement Legal Program Schools + Families Social Services Health Care About Mission & Vision History Team Supporters In the Press Microdemocracy News and Events News Events Resources Featured Publications Featured Videos Teaching + Learning Schools + Families Legal Program Voter Engagement Social Services Microdemocracy Contact Community Directory FAQ Donate Teaching + Learning Self-Advocacy Voter Engagement Legal Program https://rightquestion.org/go/gse-qft/ Remote Learning Resources Helping Families Ask Questions Could Be Your Most Powerful Engagement Tool The Right Question Institute makes it possible for all people to learn to ask better questions and participate more effectively in key decisions. Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions The Question Formulation Technique, created by the Right Question Institute, is a simple yet powerful strategy to teach students how to formulate their own questions. Learn the Question Formulation Technique today, facilitate the strategy tomorrow, and watch students become more curious, engaged learners. Questioning, Advocating, and Participating in Democracy Learn how asking questions and partnering in the decision making process can fundamentally change how individuals participate in democracy. In the world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask. The folks at the Right Question Institute are trying to correct that imbalance. They’ve come up with a method that educators can use to help students learn to ask better questions—and that can assist even those of us who graduated back in the twentieth century. — Daniel H. Pink, New York Times Bestselling Author Their level of engagement in the activity and each other’s ideas was not only exhilarating, but literally heart-warming. — Erica DeVoe, High School English Language Arts Teacher, Westerly High School, Westerly, RI When you ask a question, it can spark more questions. — Chris M., 11th Grade Student, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, CA Why do you think we ask questions? So we can be curious about what we are learning and want to know more. — Ayaka, 1st Grade Student, Novi, MI …it wouldn’t be hard to supercharge the Question Formulation Technique with big questions. Teachers could choose Question Foci with big understandings in mind. Learners could include criteria related to insight, action, ethics, and opportunity as they sort their questions for importance. The main point is this: putting learners in charge of questions. — David N. Perkins, Professor of Teaching and Learning, Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA Hundreds of thousands of people across many fields are enthusiastically using RQI’s resources to help individuals develop their own ability to ask better questions and participate more effectively in decisions. 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Over 300,000 educators around the world have used the Question Formulation Technique, and the Right Question Institute and its strategies have appeared in the New York Times , The Boston Globe , The Atlantic , Education Week , and many other publications. See RQI in the Press Download powerful yet simple educational resources Register Learn More Already a Member? Log in . Share the Strategy and Source RQI Our materials are available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license. To comply with this license, you must include the following language on all materials you use, share, adapt, or create: “Source: The Right Question Institute (RQI). The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) was created by RQI. Visit rightquestion.org for more information and free resources.” As long as you include this source language, you are welcome to use, adapt, and share our strategies and materials for noncommercial use. 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