Subtitle: Teach Student to Ask Their Own Questions. The authors argue that formulating one's own question 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 simplist 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.

Introduction : "Why didn't I learn this in school?" --The -- question formulation technique : teaching multiple thinking abilities in one process -- Choose the question focus : the starting point for student questions -- Introduce the rules for producing questions : an exercise in metacognition -- Students produce the questions : divergent thinking unleashed -- Students improve the questions : closed- and open-ended questions -- Students prioritize the questions : analysis and convergence -- Next steps : "What do we do with all these questions?" -- Students reflect on their learning : cognition, affect, and behavior -- A -- memo to my fellow teachers : what I've learned from using the QFT -- Students and classrooms transformed : a community of self-directed learners -- Questions and education, questions and democracy.