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Having essential questions drive curriculum and learning has become core to many educators' instructional practices. Grant Wiggins, in his work on Understanding By Design, describes an essential question as: A meaning of "essential" involves important questions that recur throughout one's life. Such questions are broad in scope and timeless by nature.

Some questions to help evaluate lessons/projects for rich learning with technology. One more interesting way to self-reflect.

written with partner in mind but good to remember when we are helping a student through a conflict situation -- get them to focus on the "I" -- challenge statements that aren't true, where they are imposing judgement or blame "What is not as helpful is to try and impose personal feelings and interpretations on someone else. Stay on your side of the net; express "I" statements about how the situation or dialogue is feeling to you, what you think is important about it, why you want to talk about it-your main intention for having the dialogue. Refrain from "you" statements where you tell your partner what his or her thoughts, feelings, and truths are or blaming him/her for your differences. Then ask open-ended questions: "Who does this happen with?" "What are you feeling when it happens?" "Where in our relationship did this start to be an issue?" "How do you respond when this is going on?" Questions that can be answered with "yes" or "no" are often leading and laced with our personal agenda about what is true."

Digest connecting students' questions & the Question Formulation Technique with Project-Based Learning, Information Fluency, and Danielson's Framework.

Amazing. I have been trying really hard to write my reports carefully and focussed on fostering a growth mindset. Not easy because I so many "go to" phrases that fix the mindset.

The Socratic seminar, challenges to students to formal discussions about a text based on open-ended questions. Throughout the exercise, students must alternately employ good listening, critical thinking, creativity, and rhetorical prowess.

Powerful for following trends and big questions

It's though provoking look at personalized learning. I think that studies can definitely be pushed because if you're assessing students in a standardized way - then that's an issue in and of itself.

Many student and teacher (non-commercial) scenarios explained. A Canadian School Board Association document 2012.