Thoughts, Questions, Epiphanies
(TQE)
Summary of the Strategy
Instead of assigning comprehension questions on articles, novels, or textbook readings, this strategy has students read a text for homework and come to class with thoughts, questions, and epiphanies to share in discussion.
There are many ways to facilitate a TQE. I have been doing Socratic Seminars for years but the TQE is sort of a variation of a Socratic Seminar with perhaps a bit less preparation needed.
Marisa E. Thompson coined the TQE term and writes in detail about how to implement it in her article, We're Killing The Love of Reading, But Here's An Easy Fix. Jennifer Gonzalez also addresses TQE in an interview with Marisa E. Thompson in episode 103 of her podcast called, Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method. More links on the strategy are included on Gonzalez's blog page.
Thompson has her students come to class after having done a reading for homework. Then, she groups students in small groups to discuss basic plot aspects as well to come up with one main, super amazing, thought-provoking question and/or epiphanies they had from their discussion. She then asks the small groups to share that one question/epiphany with the class during a whole-group discussion.
I took Thompson's question prompt slide and threw it onto a Google Slides presentation so I would be able to edit it. The link to it is here: TQE Prompts on Google Slides.
There are many ways to facilitate a TQE. I have been doing Socratic Seminars for years but the TQE is sort of a variation of a Socratic Seminar with perhaps a bit less preparation needed.
Marisa E. Thompson coined the TQE term and writes in detail about how to implement it in her article, We're Killing The Love of Reading, But Here's An Easy Fix. Jennifer Gonzalez also addresses TQE in an interview with Marisa E. Thompson in episode 103 of her podcast called, Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method. More links on the strategy are included on Gonzalez's blog page.
Thompson has her students come to class after having done a reading for homework. Then, she groups students in small groups to discuss basic plot aspects as well to come up with one main, super amazing, thought-provoking question and/or epiphanies they had from their discussion. She then asks the small groups to share that one question/epiphany with the class during a whole-group discussion.
I took Thompson's question prompt slide and threw it onto a Google Slides presentation so I would be able to edit it. The link to it is here: TQE Prompts on Google Slides.