Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one’s own questions is “the single most essential skill for learning”—and one that should be taught to all students.

They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible. Drawing on twenty years of experience, the authors present the Question Formulation Technique, a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize how to use them.

Make Just One Change features the voices and experiences of teachers in classrooms across the country to illustrate the use of the Question Formulation Technique across grade levels and subject areas and with different kinds of learners.

• Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
• Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice (Volume 1)
• Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools
• Inquiry Mindset: Nurturing the Dreams, Wonders, and Curiosities of Our Youngest Learners
• A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
• Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding
• Experience Inquiry: 5 Powerful Strategies, 50 Practical Experiences (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
• Ambitious Science Teaching
• Think Like Socrates: Using Questions to Invite Wonder and Empathy Into the Classroom, Grades 4-12 (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
• Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning