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Crafting Essential Crafting Essential QuestionsQuestions
Traci BlanchardNorth Cobb High School
Source: Understanding by Design by Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins, © 2004
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Goals Goals
What is an essential question?How do I write effective ones?
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An Essential Question isAn Essential Question is
One that lies at the heart of a subject or a curriculum & promotes inquiry & uncoverage of a subject.
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Essential QuestionsEssential Questions
Have no simple “right” answerProvoke & sustain inquiryAddress conceptual or
philosophical foundationsRaise other important questionsNaturally & appropriately recurStimulate vital, ongoing
rethinking
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ExamplesExamples
What is a true friend?To what extent does art reflect
culture or shape it?Is everything quantifiable?To what extent is DNA destiny?In what ways is algebra real and in
what ways is it unreal?To what extent is US history a
history of progress?
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ExamplesExamples
Must heroes be flawless?Who is entitled to own what?Is the subjunctive necessary?What makes writing worth
reading?Does practice makes perfect?What is healthy eating? Healthy
living?
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What makes a question What makes a question “essential”?“essential”?Recurs throughout all our livesRefers to core ideas & inquiries
within a disciplineHelps students effectively
inquire and make sense of important but complex ideas, knowledge, know-how
Engages a specific & diverse set of learners
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Intent, not language, is Intent, not language, is the key:the key:Why we pose the questionHow students are to tackle itWhat learning activities &
assessments we expect
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Types of Essential Types of Essential Questions Questions Overarching: Frame courses
and programs of study around truly big ideas
Topical: Are unit specific but still promote inquiry
GOOD TEACHING USES BOTH!
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Overarching Essential Overarching Essential Questions Questions More general, broaderPoint beyond specific topics or
skillsPromote transfer of
understandingOne will be used as your pre &
post SIP writing prompt
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Examples of Examples of Overarching EQOverarching EQCan a fictional story be “true”?How do a region’s geography,
climate, and natural resources affect the way people live and work?
How does technological change influence people’s lives? Society?
How does what we measure influence how we measure?
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Examples of Examples of Overarching EQOverarching EQHow do we classify the things
around us?Do artists have a responsibility
to their audience? To society?How does language shape
culture?Is pain necessary for progress
in athletics?
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Topical Essential Topical Essential QuestionsQuestionsUnit specific - used to guide
individual unitsPromote inquiryResist simple answersRequire explanation &
justificationOne per month will be your SIP
writing prompt
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Examples of Topical EQExamples of Topical EQ
How might Congress have better protected minority rights in the 1950s & 1960s?
Should we require DNA samples from every convicted criminal?
Is Holden Caulfield a “phony”?
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Examples of Topical EQExamples of Topical EQ
What is the value of place value?
What is electricity?How do we hit with greatest
power without losing control?
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Leading QuestionsLeading Questions
Meant to culminate in a fact or completely settled conclusion
No sustained inquiry or argument intended or necessary
Underscores an important point we want students to note
We need these, too, BUT...THEY CANNOT BE THE FOUNDATION
OF OUR CURRICULAR DESIGN.
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Where to start?Where to start?
Determine the “big ideas”Georgia Performance StandardsCourse texts
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What are Big Ideas?What are Big Ideas?
Core concepts, principles, theories, & processes that should serve as the focal point of curricula, instruction & assessment.
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Big IdeasBig IdeasAre important and enduringAre not obviousMay be prone to misunderstandingPrioritize contentAre transferableAre the building material of
understandingsManifest in various ways within
disciplinesAct as “conceptual velcro”
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Finding Big IdeasFinding Big Ideas
Clarify Content PrioritiesWorth being familiar withImportant to know and doBig ideas & Enduring
Understandings
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Finding Big IdeasFinding Big Ideas
Unpack the GPSCircle key nouns, adjectives, & verbsDraft implied or stated big ideas
based on those key words.Critically analyze the course text
Work “backward” to determine what big ideas and/or EQ the text addresses
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Big Ideas can beBig Ideas can be
ConceptsThemesIssues/DebatesProblems/ChallengesProcessesTheoriesParadoxesAssumptions/Perspectives
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From Big Idea to EQFrom Big Idea to EQ
Use p. 83, Identifying EQ & UnderstandingsStart with Big IdeaAnswer ?s related to Big IdeaGenerate EQ & desired
understandings
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Making the ConnectionMaking the Connection
Big Idea
Understanding
Essential Question
Topic or Content
Standard
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Your taskYour task
Collaboratively draft ONE overarching EQ for your course (Sept., Dec.)
Collaboratively draft TWO topical (unit) EQs for your course (Oct., Nov.)
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ExampleExample
GPS: The learner will be able to read, respond to, and critique historically and culturally significant works of literature in order to understand their importance and relationship to past and present cultures.
Overarching EQ:Does literature primarily reflect culture or shape it?
Topical EQ:What does Romeo & Juliet teach us about Shakespeare’s view of destiny? How does it compare to yours?
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Where to get more Where to get more informationinformationOther training sessions--may be
department, planning period in-service, and/or Early Release or Cluster Days
Understanding by Design by Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins