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How new technique can spur learners' curiosity

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Some of the teachers who have been trained on the use of QFT in Mwala, Machakos County. [Rose Mukonyo, Standard]

When you get into a class, the most obvious thing to expect is to find a teacher asking questions and giving content to their students, but what happens when you find that the students are in charge of asking the questions?

A teaching and learning method using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) allows the learners to feed into their curiosity by asking relevant questions as guided by the teacher to achieve the set objectives for that particular lesson.

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