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Sean Dagony-Clark

Authentic Education - What Is an Essential Question? - 0 views

  • a question can be considered essential when it helps students make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how
  • By actively exploring such questions, the learner is helped to arrive at important understandings as well as greater coherence in their content knowledge and skill.
  • point to the big ideas
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  • key inquiries within a discipline.
  • important questions that recur throughout one’s life
  • Teachers have to be careful not to conflate two ideas: “essential to me in my role as a teacher” and “essential to anyone as a thinking person and inquiring student for making meaning of facts in this subject.”
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    "What is an essential question? An essential question is - well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter - the essence of the issue."
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