Teaching Students to Ask Better Questions

Dan Rothstein, EdD 
Co-Director
The Right Question Institute 
Cambridge, MA
RSVP

Overview: 
Students need both an opportunity and a process for learning how to formulate better questions. Dan Rothstein will demonstrate how to use a deceptively simple process for teaching the skill of question formulation in a way that students learn to use divergent, convergent and metacognitive thinking abilities. The process can be easily implemented, used for different purposes and consistently results in students who are more engaged, curious and better able to direct their own learning.  

Biography
Dan Rothstein, Ed.D., is co-author, with Luz Santana, of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions (Harvard Education Press: 2011) which first introduced the Question Formulation Technique and led to its enthusiastic adoption by over 300,000 teachers in the U.S., Canada, and around the world. Dan’s work focuses on honoring and supporting the work of educators to help students learn to ask better questions and take more ownership of their own learning. His active learning keynotes and seminars have engaged many audiences, including statewide rural education organizations, large urban districts, the Library of Congress, Harvard Medical School, and others. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications and has been featured on National Public Radio. He is currently a Co-P.I. on an NSF EAGER grant to improve doctoral students’ question-asking abilities.