What are one or two ideas you can apply in your teaching?
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Charlotte Thorntonessential questions
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mgrangerBy Grant Wiggin--right from the horse's mouth. Describes three meaning of "Essential Questions".
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essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue.
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important questions that recur throughout one’s life.
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liable to change our minds in response to reflection and experience
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key inquiries within a discipline.
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big ideas of a subject
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when it helps students make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how
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actively exploring such questions, the learner is helped to arrive at important understandings as well as greater coherence in their content knowledge and skill.
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genuine and relevant inquiry
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The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning “the answer” but about learning how to learn
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- causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
- provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
- requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
- stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
- sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences;
- naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects.
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But those questions are not “essential” in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries. Teachers have to be careful not to conflate two ideas: “essential to me in my role as a teacher” and “essential to anyone as a thinking person and inquiring student for making meaning of facts in this subject.”
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Patricia FazioliA question is essential when it:
causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
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Chuck HodgesComments from Grant Wiggins on essential questions...
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Cris Crissman"What is a question that any thoughtful and intellectually-alive person ponders and should keep pondering? "
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important questions that recur throughout one’s life. Such questions are broad in scope and timeless by nature.
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key inquiries within a discipline. Essential questions in this sense are those that point to the big ideas of a subject and to the frontiers of technical knowledge
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what is needed for learning core content. In this sense, a question can be considered essential when it helps students make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how – findings that may be understood by experts, but not yet grasped or seen as valuable by the learner
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Yoon Soo LimWhat is an Essential Question? Post by Grant Wiggins http://bit.ly/awt5t9 #4thchat [Like it? http://goo.gl/ZH7NZ ]
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Colin ClarkeWhat is an essential question? http://ow.ly/1sz0xT
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stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
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Essential questions in this sense are those that point to the big ideas of a subject and to the frontiers of technical
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- naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects.
Here is a variety of subject-area examples of such questions:
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Why did that particular species/culture/person thrive and that other one barely survive or die?
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“essential to me in my role as a teacher” and “essential to anyone as a thinking person and inquiring student for making meaning of facts in this subject.”
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- causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
- provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
- requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
- stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
- sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences;
- naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects.
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but we soon learn that answers to them are invariably provisional.
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The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning “the answer” but about learning how to learn.
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A second connotation for “essential” refers to key inquiries within a discipline. Essential questions in this sense are those that point to the big ideas of a subject and to the frontiers of technical knowledge.
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Teachers have to be careful not to conflate two ideas: “essential to me in my role as a teacher” and “essential to anyone as a thinking person and inquiring student for making meaning of facts in this subject.”
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Joanne McMurdoEssential Questions
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Nancy BlairHelpful information about writing essential questions.
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causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
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Seth BattisWhat is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue. Think of questions in your life that fit this definition – but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher; consider the question as a thoughtful adult. What kinds of questions come to mind? What is a question that any thoughtful and intellectually-alive person ponders and should keep pondering?
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DigiEd response: After reading the article I feel that there a 3 types of essential questions. The third being those questions that help students make sense of complicated content. This third type of question can be used to develop and assess content knowledge. If I recall correctly, In Understanding by Design these questions might be unit questions. All essestial question cause deeper thinking and are not just requiring recall of general knowledge. Essential questions a relevant,real, and related to topics students encounter in the real world and require higher order thinking.
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DigiEd Response: This articulates what I am STRIVING for in my teaching.
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DigiEd Response: After reading this article, my questioning does not match what they are saying. I have been asking kids to explain how they know it? It almost sounds like what I thought were critical thinking skills is not. I tend to use teacherly questions. I teach mathematics and even though I want students to know the important answer, I ask them to tell me how they know. There are various ways to get to the right answer. I wonder if this is signaling genuine, important and necessarily ongoing inquiries.
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key inquiries within a discipline.
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HELP! Share an example of when you have done this in your classroom.
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The most commonly asked question type is factual – a question that seeks “the” correct answer.
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Add Sticky Note“When did the war break out? Who was President at the time? Why, according to the text, did Congress pass that bill?”
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Are these lower order or higher order thinking HOT? What would make them more essential?
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important questions that recur throughout one’s lif
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broad in scope
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timeless by nature
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The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning “the answer” but about learning how to learn.
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key inquiries
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what is needed for learning core content
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when it helps students make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how
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genuine and relevant inquiry
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most commonly asked question type is factual – a question that seeks “the” correct answer.
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ongoing inquiries.
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What Is an Essential Question? by Grant Wiggins Nov 15, 2007 return to Big Ideas Home <!-- the article --> What is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue. Think of questions in your life that fit this definition – but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher; consider the question as a thoughtful adult. What kinds of questions come to mind? What is a question that any thoughtful and intellectually-alive person ponders and should keep pondering?
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What is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue.
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What Is an Essential Question? by Grant Wiggins Nov 15, 2007 return to Big Ideas Home <!-- the article --> What is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue. Think of questions in your life that fit this definition – but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher; consider the question as a thoughtful adult. What kinds of questions come to mind? What is a question that any thoughtful and intellectually-alive person ponders and should keep pondering?
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What is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue.
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What Is an Essential Question? by Grant Wiggins Nov 15, 2007 return to Big Ideas Home <!-- the article --> What is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue. Think of questions in your life that fit this definition – but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher; consider the question as a thoughtful adult. What kinds of questions come to mind? What is a question that any thoughtful and intellectually-alive person ponders and should keep pondering?
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? What is a question that any thoughtful and intellectually-alive person ponders and should keep pondering?
In Understanding by Design we remind readers that “essential” has a few different connotations:
One meaning of “essential” involves imp
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What is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue.
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One meaning of “essential” involves important questions that recur throughout one’s life
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we are liable to change our minds in response to reflection and experience concerning such questions as we go through life, and that such changes of mind are not only expected but beneficial
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A good education is grounded in such life-long questions
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The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning “the answer” but about learning how to learn.
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A second connotation for “essential” refers to key inquiries within a discipline.
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Essential questions in this sense are those that point to the big ideas of a subject and to the frontiers of technical knowledge
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There is a third important connotation for the term “essential” that refers to what is needed for learning core content.
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a question can be considered essential when it helps students make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how
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By actively exploring such questions, the learner is helped to arrive at important understandings as well as greater coherence in their content knowledge and skill.
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- causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
- provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
- requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
- stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
- sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences;
- naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and subjects.
A question is essential when it:
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Teachers have to be careful not to conflate two ideas: “essential to me in my role as a teacher” and “essential to anyone as a thinking person and inquiring student for making meaning of facts in this subject.”
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Toby FischerWhat is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue.
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What Is an Essential Question? by Grant Wiggins
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Debbie BacaWhat makes an "essential question?" Examples of essential questions; meaning of "essential"
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Tracey StockelThese are the questions that inspire inquiry, higher order thinking, discussion and creativity.
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What is an essential question?
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important questions that recur throughout one’s life
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point to the big ideas
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- auses genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
- provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
- requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
- stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
- sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences;
- naturally recurs, creating opportunities for transfer to other situations and
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subjects.
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recur throughout one’s life
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requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers
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sparks meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences;
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but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher; consider the question as a thoughtful adult.
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Understanding by Design
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Rebecca DrazdowskiDeveloping essential questions for project based learning
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when it helps students make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how – findings that may be understood by experts, but not yet grasped or seen as valuable by the learner. In what ways does light act
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The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning “the answer” but about learning how to learn.
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provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
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What Is an Essential Question?
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A question is essential when it:
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an essential question is different from many of the questions teachers typically ask students in class. The most commonly asked question type is factual – a question that seeks “the” correct answer.
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Ginger Bound"question is essential when it:
1. causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
2. provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
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requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
4. stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
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but we soon learn that answers to them are invariably provisional. In other words, we are liable to change our minds in response to reflection and experience concerning such questions as we go through life, and that such changes of mind are not only expected but beneficial.
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requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
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But those questions are not “essential” in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.
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A good education is grounded in such life-long questions, even if we sometimes lose sight of them while focusing on content mastery.
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“Is any history capable of escaping the social and personal history of its writers?”
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By actively exploring such questions, the learner is helped to arrive at important understandings as well as greater coherence in their content knowledge and skill.
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Is such a leading question bad? No. There are all sorts of good pedagogical reasons for using a question format to underscore knowledge or to call attention to a forgotten or overlooked idea.
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Adele WeitzEducational newsletter on Big Ideas and Authentic Teaching
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Donald BurkinsWhat is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue. Think of questions in your life that fit this definition – but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher; consider the question as a thoughtful adult. What kinds of questions come to mind? What is a question that any thoughtful and intellectually-alive person ponders and should keep pondering?
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Doug NoonA question is essential when it:
1. causes genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content;
2. provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;
3. requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers;
4. stimulates vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior lessons;
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Zac EarlyWhat is an essential question? An essential question is – well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter – the essence of the issue. Think of questions in your life that fit this definition – but don’t just yet think about it like a teacher
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