MR. WINCE - AZ
  • Home
    • About Mr. Wince
    • Diversity and Inclusion Statement
    • My Pedagogy Decisions >
      • Smiles and Frowns
      • Project-Based Learning >
        • Questioning >
          • Question Formulation Technique >
            • Develop a Driving Question
            • Produce Questions
            • Know the Four Rules
            • Identify Open and Closed-Ended Questions
            • Set Priority Questions
            • Plan Next Steps
            • Reflect on Learning
            • When Things Get Tough
        • Design
        • Collaboration
        • Research >
          • Goal Development
        • Project Management
        • Craftsmanship
        • Public Product
        • Reflection
      • Student Portfolios
      • How to Learn: Remembering and Forgetting
      • SBG to Ungrading
      • Reflection is Learning
      • Readings on Pedagogy
    • Why I Am A Member of TSEA
    • The Study of History
    • Class Texts and Reading Strategies >
      • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
      • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
      • An African American and Latinx History of the United States
    • Course/Project Archives >
      • World History >
        • Q1 - Every Story >
          • Thinking Like a Historian and Geographer
          • Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution
          • c.1400s - c.1700s - Exploration and Colonization
        • Q2 - Economics and Labor Systems >
          • c.1600s-c.1800s - Age of Revolutions
          • c.1800s - Industrialization
        • Q3 - Conflicts and Resolutions >
          • 1914-1919 - The Great War
          • 1917-1923 - Russian Revolution
          • 1939-1945 - World War II
        • Q4 - Global Human Rights >
          • 1940s-1980s Cold War and Proxy Wars
          • Independence & Decolonization Movements
          • Modern World Issues
  • American History
    • Course Info, Student Portfolios & Sources
    • Black History Month
    • Q3 - Our American Story: Why Care? >
      • Q3 American History Weekly Agendas
      • Q3 AH Student Portfolio Expectations
      • History Readings & Socractic Seminars
      • 1900-1910s: Imperialism, Progressivism & World War I
      • 1920s: The Roaring Twenties
      • 1930s: The Great Depression
      • 1930s-1945: World War II
  • Psychology
    • Psychology Course Info, Student Portfolios & Sources
    • Q3 Project My Superpower! >
      • Q3 Psychology Weekly Agendas
      • Q3 Psychology Student Portfolio Expectations
      • Psych Readings - Socractic Seminars
      • Introduction to Psychology
      • Biological Pillar >
        • Biological Bases of Behavior
        • Sensation
        • Consciousness
        • Biological Careers in Psychology
      • Cognition Pillar >
        • Cognition
        • Memory
        • Perception
        • Intelligence
        • Cognition Careers in Psychology
      • Development and Learning Pillar >
        • Life Span Development
        • Learning
        • Language
        • Development and Learning Careers in Psychology
  • U.S. Government
    • Government Course Info, Student Portfolios & Sources
    • Q3 A More Perfect Union: 28th >
      • Q3 Government History Weekly Agendas
      • Q3 Government Student Portfolio Expectations
      • Gov. Readings - Socractic Seminars
      • Democracy Essential Lessons
      • Citizenship Essential Lessons
      • Voting Essential Lessons
  • Resources Dump

Question Formulation Technique
(QFT)

Oliver Wendell Holmes’ observation:

“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.”
You can get better at asking questions, generating more productive questions, and figuring out just the right questions to be asking given the opportunity to develop your own ability to ask questions!

Using QFT, Question Formulation Technique, students will develop divergent, convergent and metacognitive thinking abilities and become more confident learners.

The rigorous process of learning to develop and ask questions offers students the invaluable opportunity to become independent thinkers and self-directed learners.

This process is considered both a science and an art. QFT can be used in any content area, for any type of work, and has been proven to be successful and this is supported by data. QFT is also an art because the more time that is spent practicing and honing the skill of asking and developing questions, the better the better you will become at it!

Process Overview
- A Driving Question, presented, usually developed by the teacher that serves as the jumping-off point for student questions.
- A process for students to produce questions using a set of four simple rules.
- An exercise for students to work on closed and open-ended questions and how to change a question from one to the other.
- Student selection of priority questions.
- A student and teacher plan for Next Steps - How will the priority questions be used?
- A reflection activity for students to name what they have learned, how they learned it, and how they will use what they have learned.
Develop a Driving Question
Know the Four Rules
Produce Questions
Identify Open and Closed-Ended Questions
Set priority Questions
Plan Next Steps
Reflect on Learning
What's the value of the curated resources found here?
Venmo - @dywince
Last Updated February 6th, 2023.
  • Home
    • About Mr. Wince
    • Diversity and Inclusion Statement
    • My Pedagogy Decisions >
      • Smiles and Frowns
      • Project-Based Learning >
        • Questioning >
          • Question Formulation Technique >
            • Develop a Driving Question
            • Produce Questions
            • Know the Four Rules
            • Identify Open and Closed-Ended Questions
            • Set Priority Questions
            • Plan Next Steps
            • Reflect on Learning
            • When Things Get Tough
        • Design
        • Collaboration
        • Research >
          • Goal Development
        • Project Management
        • Craftsmanship
        • Public Product
        • Reflection
      • Student Portfolios
      • How to Learn: Remembering and Forgetting
      • SBG to Ungrading
      • Reflection is Learning
      • Readings on Pedagogy
    • Why I Am A Member of TSEA
    • The Study of History
    • Class Texts and Reading Strategies >
      • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
      • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
      • An African American and Latinx History of the United States
    • Course/Project Archives >
      • World History >
        • Q1 - Every Story >
          • Thinking Like a Historian and Geographer
          • Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution
          • c.1400s - c.1700s - Exploration and Colonization
        • Q2 - Economics and Labor Systems >
          • c.1600s-c.1800s - Age of Revolutions
          • c.1800s - Industrialization
        • Q3 - Conflicts and Resolutions >
          • 1914-1919 - The Great War
          • 1917-1923 - Russian Revolution
          • 1939-1945 - World War II
        • Q4 - Global Human Rights >
          • 1940s-1980s Cold War and Proxy Wars
          • Independence & Decolonization Movements
          • Modern World Issues
  • American History
    • Course Info, Student Portfolios & Sources
    • Black History Month
    • Q3 - Our American Story: Why Care? >
      • Q3 American History Weekly Agendas
      • Q3 AH Student Portfolio Expectations
      • History Readings & Socractic Seminars
      • 1900-1910s: Imperialism, Progressivism & World War I
      • 1920s: The Roaring Twenties
      • 1930s: The Great Depression
      • 1930s-1945: World War II
  • Psychology
    • Psychology Course Info, Student Portfolios & Sources
    • Q3 Project My Superpower! >
      • Q3 Psychology Weekly Agendas
      • Q3 Psychology Student Portfolio Expectations
      • Psych Readings - Socractic Seminars
      • Introduction to Psychology
      • Biological Pillar >
        • Biological Bases of Behavior
        • Sensation
        • Consciousness
        • Biological Careers in Psychology
      • Cognition Pillar >
        • Cognition
        • Memory
        • Perception
        • Intelligence
        • Cognition Careers in Psychology
      • Development and Learning Pillar >
        • Life Span Development
        • Learning
        • Language
        • Development and Learning Careers in Psychology
  • U.S. Government
    • Government Course Info, Student Portfolios & Sources
    • Q3 A More Perfect Union: 28th >
      • Q3 Government History Weekly Agendas
      • Q3 Government Student Portfolio Expectations
      • Gov. Readings - Socractic Seminars
      • Democracy Essential Lessons
      • Citizenship Essential Lessons
      • Voting Essential Lessons
  • Resources Dump