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Designing Quality Driving Questions
First Presented at the 2008 Teacher Leadership Institute
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Session Overview
Know: The characteristics of a driving question
Understand:The value of a driving question in PBLA quality driving question can
• Motivate students• Increase participation• Encourage deeper thinking
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Clinic Overview, ContinuedDo:• Complete a “Know/Need to Know” document based on this
session’s driving question.• Complete and discuss a Frayer model.• Watch a video demonstrating the process of developing a
good driving question.• Work through an online tutorial on developing driving
questions.• Identify examples of quality driving questions.• Craft a quality driving question.• Use a checklist to self assesses the driving question written
during this clinic.
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Driving Question:
Why should a teacher invest time and effort in crafting a quality driving question?
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Know Need to Know
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Developing a Driving Question
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According to the PBL Handbook…
“A good Driving Question makes a project intriguing, complex, and problematic.
…requires multiple activities and the synthesis of different types of information before it can be answered.
…should address authentic concerns.”
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Different Types of Questions
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Quality Driving Questions Are• Provocative• Open-ended• Go to the heart of a discipline or topic• Challenging• Can arise from real-dilemmas that students
find interesting• Consistent with curricular standards and
frameworks
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Points to Remember
• Make the Driving Question feasible.
• Don’t let technology become the focus of a project.
• For the best Driving Questions, plan to revise and/or refine your first draft.
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Teach Students How to Ask Questions
Driving Question: What is the impact of climate on a civilization?
Open-Ended Question:How does climate determine the foods we eat?
Direct/Closed Question:What kinds of foods do we eat?What season do we eat those foods?
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Now, it’s your turn!
Project Based Learning Online Resource
http://www.pbl-online.org/
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Identify Quality Driving Questions
• Sort the questions in the packet on your table into one of two piles: •Quality and Needs Refinement
• Select one of the questions that needs refinement and make it a quality Driving Question.
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Craft a Driving Question
• Revisit the driving question you designed for the PBL experience you are developing.
• Use the new knowledge you have on quality driving questions to refine or revise yours.
• Work with those sitting at your table to ensure you have a quality Driving Question at the end of this clinic.
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Self Assess
Use the DQ2 Self-Assessment Checklist
to self assess your driving question.
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Exit Slip
Respond to this clinic’s driving question.
Why should a teacher invest time and effort in crafting a quality
driving question?
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Resources
Markham, Thom. Project Based Learning Handbook. 2nd Edition. Novato, CA: Buck Institute for Education, 2003.
Project Based Learning Online Resourcehttp://www.pbl-online.org/
Stanfill, Jack and RD Drake. “An Instructional Organizer” http://www.jetspost.com/eportfolio/pbl/driving_questions.htm