What? Essential questions
So what?
Characteristics of 4 types of classroom questions
Examples of 4 types of classroom questions
Developing topical essential questions from overarching ones
Now what?
Once the overarching questions are identified I can pull questions from this set to address concepts & skills. Spiralling the curriculum around a set of recurring questions provides the intellectual coherence needed to develop & deepen understanding of essential ideas.
Once in place they assist teachers in creating versions that are more topic specific The added benefit is for learners: by exploring these recurring questions applied to different topics across the grades, they come to 'see' the larger, transferable ideas at the heart of subject matter.
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