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Common Planning

Common Planning. September 10, 2013. Gradual Release (Common Board Configuration). Essential Question. Questions that can be answered with "yes" or "no" are seldom worth asking. Essential questions reside require students to

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Common Planning

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  1. Common Planning September 10, 2013

  2. Gradual Release (Common Board Configuration) Essential Question

  3. Questions that can be answered with "yes" or "no" are seldom worth asking.

  4. Essential questions reside require students to • EVALUATE (make a thoughtful choice between options, with the choice based upon clearly stated criteria) • to SYNTHESIZE (invent a new or different version) or to • ANALYZE(develop a thorough and complex understanding through skillful questioning).

  5. Essential questions spark our curiosity and sense of wonder. They derive from some deep wish to understand some thing which matters to us.

  6. Answers to essential questions cannot be found. They must be invented • It is something like cooking a great meal. The researcher goes out on a shopping expedition for the raw ingredients, but "the proof is in the pudding." • Students must construct their own answers and make their own meaning from the information they have gathered. They create insight.

  7. Have no one obvious "right" answer: essential "answers" are not self-evidently true.

  8. Essential questions… Can be found in the most historically important (and controversial) problems and topics

  9. 4 Essential question before we rush into war

  10. Instructions • 1Ask whether the question is looking for information that can be regurgitated. Questions such as "What year was Martin Luther King assassinated?" are closed -- or lower-order -- questions because they are either correct or incorrect.

  11. 2Decide if the question is open-ended. These types of questions require students to extrapolate information, speculate and offer their opinions. "What do you think would happen if we raised the temperature of the earth by 15 degrees?" requires students to speculate, as nobody knows for sure what the answer would be. Answers to open-ended questions often begin with "I think . . . " and continue with "because" to offer a reason.

  12. 3 Determine if the question requires students to use analysis. If the question requires them to break down a concept and identify reasons or motives or draw on generalizations, then it is a higher-order question. Example of an analysis question is "What would happen if China invaded North Korea?" A higher-level answer would be along the lines of "It is unlikely that China will invade North Korea, because . . . ."

  13. 4 Scrutinizethe answer for inference. Asking, "What would life be like if we could live on Mars?" requires students to speculate. At the synthesis level, students have to be able to engage in original and creative thinking to solve problems. "We would have to adapt our lifestyles to live on Mars, because . . . " is the sort of answer to expect.

  14. 5 Evaluate the evaluation. This level of higher-order questions and answers -- "Do you think the money spent on the space program would be better spent on health? Why?" -- requires students to offer opinions and to offer evidence to support their positions. A higher-level answer to a "why" question requires students to provide evidence to back up their answer, rather than leaving it as "because I think so."

  15. Word Wall Essential Self-evidently Theses Hypothesis Plausible Sanctioned Extrapolate Generalizations Scrutinize Regurgitated

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