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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when
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- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
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Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study
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Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question
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Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest
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Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
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Test students’ ability to recall fact based information
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When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage.
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promote thinking at all levels. They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students. Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how"
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and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research. They involve students in personalizing
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when
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- Essential Questions:
- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
- Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions. For example: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
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- Unit Questions:
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study.
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Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question
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unique responses and creative approaches
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- Content Questions:
- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions
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Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
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Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
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- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.
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Maribeth BrownEssential Question website. 2011
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details. They help students to focus on the factual information that must be learned in order to meet many of the content standards and learning objectives.
Using Curriculum-Framing Questions
Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other. Content Questions support Unit Questions and both support Essential Questions. Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first. The questions below from a civics unit show the relationship between each. -
Which of our community helpers is
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Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other. Content Questions support Unit Questions and both support Essential Questions. Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first. The questions below from a civics unit show the relationship between each.
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They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students.
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involve students in personalizing their learning and developing insights into a topic
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07 Jun 11
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels. They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students. Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
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When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning.
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They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research
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develop a questioning approach to the curriculum.
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Using Curriculum-Framing Questions
Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other. Content Questions support Unit Questions and both support Essential Questions. Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first. -
bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
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enduring ideas that cross all subjects
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They are often life’s big questions
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Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking
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Are open-ended and invite exploration
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own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
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- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question
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- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
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support the Essential and Unit Questions
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Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer
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When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning.
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a structure for organizing questioning throughout
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recognize the "why" and "how"
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provide the rationale for learning
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Content Questions
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"who", "what", "where", and "when",
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understanding the details.
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Answers to these questions are not found in a book.
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challenge students to dissect their thinking
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Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when",
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Wiggins, G. and McTighe, J. (2001). Understanding by design. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
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When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage.
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Questions
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intriguing, open-ended questions
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open-ended questions
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give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant
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students in personalizing their learning and developing insights
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big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects
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Answers to these questions are not found in a book
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Capture students’ attention
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open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study
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Pose problems or serve as discussion starters
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allow for unique responses
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clear-cut answers or specific “right”
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Align with content standards and learning objectives
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fact based information
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research.
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details
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<!-- ** / Wrapper Table for Spotlight Box(es) ** --> Asking the Right Questions<!--[related-links]--> <!--[generic-link-title]--> <!--[/generic-link-title]-->Questions for Learning <!--[generic-link-body]--> Explore strategies for developing open-ended questions and implementing them in the classroom.<!--<div class="moduleBoldLink"><a href="NEED_URL">Learn more ›</a></div>--> <!--[/generic-link-body]-->
Using Questions to Promote Learning
Developing Good Questions
Effective Questioning Practices
Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the right questions?
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Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
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arning relevant to
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Curriculum-Framing Questions
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Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions.
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When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions.
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research. -
They involve students in personalizing their learning and developing insights into a topic. Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum.
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Anne TomEssential Questions
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They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research.
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22 Aug 09
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- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
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Alya SABEHQuestions for
Learning
Explore strategies for developing open-ended
questions and implementing them in the classroom.
Using Questions to Promote Learning
Developing Good Questions
Effective Questioning Practices
Asking the Right Questions
Asking intriguing,
open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply
and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are
given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they
engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter
and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more
motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the
right questions?
Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for
organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of
intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students.
Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit,
and Content Questions.
Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale
for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage
inquiry, discussion, and research. They involve students in personalizing their
learning and developing insights into a topic. Good Essential and Unit Questions
engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a
questioning approach to the curriculum. In order to answer such questions,
students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and
answers from the information they have gathered.
Content Questions
help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support
the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the
details. They help students to focus on the factual information that must be
learned in o-
- Why do we need others?
- Which of our community helpers is the most important?
- Which community helper would you most like to be?
- Who are some community helpers?
- What do community helpers do?
- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
- Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions. For example: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
- Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.

<!-- ** Wrapper Table for Spotlight Box(es) ** -->
<!-- ** / Wrapper Table for Spotlight Box(es) ** -->Asking the Right Questions<!--[related-links]--> <!--[generic-link-title]--> <!--[/generic-link-title]-->Questions for Learning <!--[generic-link-body]--> Explore strategies for developing open-ended questions and implementing them in the classroom.<!--<div class="moduleBoldLink"><a href="http://educate.intel.com/NEED_URL">Learn more ›</a></div>--><!--[/generic-link-body]-->
Using Questions to Promote Learning
Developing Good Questions
Effective Questioning Practices
Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the right questions?
Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels. They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students. Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research. They involve students in personalizing their learning and developing insights into a topic. Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum. In order to answer such questions, students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and answers from the information they have gathered.
Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details. They help students to focus on the factual information that must be learned in order to meet many of the content standards and learning objectives.
Using Curriculum-Framing Questions
Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other. Content Questions support Unit Questions and both support Essential Questions. Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first. The questions below from a civics unit show the relationship between each.
Essential Question
Resources
Wiggins, G. and McTighe, J. (2001). Understanding by design. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
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26 Jun 09
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25 Jun 09
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Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the right questions?
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They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students. Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research. They involve students in personalizing their learning and developing insights into a topic. Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum. In order to answer such questions, students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and answers from the information they have gathered.
Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details. They help students to focus on the factual information that must be learned in order to meet many of the content standards and learning objectives. -
Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other.
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- Essential Question
- Why do we need others?
- Which of our community helpers is the most important?
- Which community helper would you most like to be?
- Who are some community helpers?
- What do community helpers do?
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Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects.
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Have many answers.
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- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
-
Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study.
-
Pose problems or serve as discussion starters
-
Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
-
Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
-
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.
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Asking the Right Questions
Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the right questions?
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They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students. Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
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When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage.
-
When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning.
-
Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum. In order to answer such questions, students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and answers from the information they have gathered.
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to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions
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19 Jun 09
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels. They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students.
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They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research.
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Essential Questions:
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Unit Questions:
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Content Questions:
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open-ended
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Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions.
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open-ended
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provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels
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give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students.
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guide a unit of study
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Content Questions
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Unit Questions
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning
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encourage inquiry, discussion, and research
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"why" and "how
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involve students in personalizing their learning and developing insights into a topic.
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critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum.
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students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and answers from the information they have gathered
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who", "what", "where", and "when
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help students to focus on the factual information that must be learned in order to meet many of the content standards and learning objectives.
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build upon each other
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Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first
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- Essential Questions:
- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
- Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions. For example: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
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- Unit Questions:
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
-
- Content Questions:
- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
- Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.
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09 Jun 09
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Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning.
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projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students.
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Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions.
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Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study
-
Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
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07 Jun 09
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- Why do we need others?
- Which of our community helpers is the most important?
- Which community helper would you most like to be?
- Who are some community helpers?
- What do community helpers do?
- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
- Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions. For example: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
- Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.
<!-- ** / Wrapper Table for Spotlight Box(es) ** -->Asking the Right Questions<!--[related-links]--> <!--[generic-link-title]--> <!--[/generic-link-title]-->Questions for Learning <!--[generic-link-body]--> Explore strategies for developing open-ended questions and implementing them in the classroom.<!--<div class="moduleBoldLink"><a href="http://educate.intel.com/NEED_URL">Learn more ›</a></div>--><!--[/generic-link-body]-->
Using Questions to Promote Learning
Developing Good Questions
Effective Questioning Practices
Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the right questions?
Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels. They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students. Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research. They involve students in personalizing their learning and developing insights into a topic. Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum. In order to answer such questions, students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and answers from the information they have gathered.
Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details. They help students to focus on the factual information that must be learned in order to meet many of the content standards and learning objectives.
Using Curriculum-Framing Questions
Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other. Content Questions support Unit Questions and both support Essential Questions. Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first. The questions below from a civics unit show the relationship between each.
Essential Question
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10 Apr 09
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16 Feb 09
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05 Feb 09
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- Unit Questions:
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
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- Why do we need others?
- Which of our community helpers is the most important?
- Which community helper would you most like to be?
- Who are some community helpers?
- What do community helpers do?
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Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects.
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Anne CokerCurriculum framing questions
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18 Nov 08
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- Essential Questions:
- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
- Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions. For example: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
- Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research.
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20 Sep 08
Alexis WesternCurriculum-Framing Questions
curriculum questions framing intel curriculumframing questioning
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
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Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
-
Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning.
-
They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research.
-
In order to answer such questions, students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and answers from the information they have gathered.
-
Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details.
-
Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first.
-
Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects.
-
They are often life’s big questions.
-
Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking
-
students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
-
open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study
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Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question.
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- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
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clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
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Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
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- learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information
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Require knowledge and comprehension skills to
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Asking the Right Questions
Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. -
Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research. They involve students in personalizing their learning and developing insights into a topic. Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum.
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details.
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Using Curriculum-Framing Questions
Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other. Content Questions support Unit Questions and both support Essential Questions. Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first. -
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- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
- Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions. For example: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
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- Unit Questions:
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
- Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.
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Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning.
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But what are the right questions?
Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
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intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions
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provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study
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Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study
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Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions
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They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research
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Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum.
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- Essential Questions:
- Introduce big, enduring ideas that cross all subjects. They provide a bridge between many units, subject areas, or even a year’s worth of study.
- Have many answers. Answers to these questions are not found in a book. They are often life’s big questions. For example: Am I my brother’s keeper?
- Capture students’ attention and require higher-order thinking; they challenge students to dissect their thinking, apply their values, and interpret their experiences.
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- Unit Questions:
- Are open-ended and invite exploration of ideas that are specific to a topic, subject, or unit of study. Teams of teachers from different subjects can use their own unique Unit Questions to support one common, unifying Essential Question across the team.
- Pose problems or serve as discussion starters that support the Essential Question. For example: How can we help prevent and relieve famine?
- Encourage exploration, provoke and sustain interest, and allow for unique responses and creative approaches. They force students to interpret the facts themselves.
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- Content Questions:
- Typically have clear-cut answers or specific “right” answers and are categorized as “closed” questions.
- Align with content standards and learning objectives and support the Essential and Unit Questions.
- Test students’ ability to recall fact based information. They usually require students to address who, what, where, and when. For example: What is famine?
- Require knowledge and comprehension skills to answer.
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When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning.
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When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning.
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when", and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details.
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Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other
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Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels.
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Content Questions
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning.
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- Essential Question
- Why do we need others?
- Which of our community helpers is the most important?
- Which community helper would you most like to be?
- Who are some community helpers?
- What do community helpers do?
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Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the right questions?
Curriculum-Framing Questions provide a structure for organizing questioning throughout projects and promote thinking at all levels. They give projects a balance between content understanding and exploration of intriguing and enduring ideas that make learning relevant to students. Curriculum-Framing Questions guide a unit of study and include Essential, Unit, and Content Questions.
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Essential and Unit Questions provide the rationale for learning. They help students to recognize the "why" and "how" and encourage inquiry, discussion, and research.
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Unit Questions
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Good Essential and Unit Questions engage students in critical thinking, promote curiosity, and develop a questioning approach to the curriculum. In order to answer such questions, students must examine topics in depth and construct their own meaning and answers from the information they have gathered.
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Content Questions help students to identify the "who", "what", "where", and "when",
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and support the Essential and Unit Questions by providing a focus for understanding the details.
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Curriculum-Framing Questions build upon each other. Content Questions support Unit Questions and both support Essential Questions. Essential Questions are often the most intriguing and posed first. The questions below from a civics unit show the relationship between each.
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Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning. When students are given questions that they are truly interested in finding the answers to, they engage. When questions help them see the connections between the subject matter and their own lives, learning has meaning. We can help our students become more motivated and self-directed by asking the right questions. But what are the right questions?
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Marie GillCurriculum framing.
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