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Why use Essential Questions?

Why use Essential Questions?. The best EQs, handled well, make crystal-clear to students that passive learning is a no-no in the classroom; that thinking is required, not optional. Science example. Essential questions:. Signal that inquiry is a key goal of education.

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Why use Essential Questions?

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  1. Why use Essential Questions? The best EQs, handled well, make crystal-clear to students that passive learning is a no-no in the classroom; that thinking is required, not optional. Science example

  2. Essential questions: • Signal that inquiry is a key goal of education. • Make it more likely that the unit will be intellectually engaging. • Help to clarify and prioritize standards for teachers. • Provide transparency for students. • Encourage and model metacognition for students. • Provide opportunities for intra- and interdisciplinary connections. • Support meaningful differentiation.

  3. If Content is an “Answer” ... Writing Essential Questions If the content listed in standards documents (or found in a textbook) specifies the "answers" to be learned, then what were the questions that led to those answers?

  4. Unpacking Standards to Develop Essential Questions Often the nouns related to key verbs in declarative statements identify important concepts, and these can form the basis of an important question for students to explore. Define, evaluate, and comparefunctions. Use functions to modelrelationships between quantities

  5. Deriving Essential Questions from Desired Understandings Big Idea: The student will understand that each of the families of functions exhibit certain characteristics, and these characteristics help us predict behavior. What essential question could be asked?

  6. Using Essential Questions 1. Introduce a question designed to cause inquiry. 2.Elicit varied responses and question those responses. 3.Introduce and explore new perspective(s) 4.Reach tentative closure.

  7. Using Essential Questions Should Essential Questions be put into action to ensure meaningful student engagement, persistent inquiry, thoughtful deliberation and the necessary re-thinking to lead to understanding?

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