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Understanding by Design: Essential Questions | huffenglish.com - 2 views

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Essential Questions Curriculum Design

shared by lisacetroni on 09 Oct 12 - Cached
  • Our students need a curriculum that treats them more like potential performers than sideline observers
  • Essential questions “keep us focused on inquiry as opposed to just answers” (124).
  • lisacetroni on 09 Oct 12
     
    This article speaks to me about EQ's. Do you feel the same?
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  • Kelly Kosefeski on 09 Oct 12
     
    I like the idea that there is no definitive answer to a well crafted essential question. That depending on where/when/whom it is asked, the answer will always be different.
  • Andrea Corbin on 09 Oct 12
     
    I see there is a lot of confusion or disagreement about what a good essential question is.
  • Andrew Brennan on 09 Oct 12
     
    The EQ reminds me how a curious learner might approach a topic or subject. As they learn more they can still ask the same question. It's not about mastery but about the joy of research, inquiry, thinking, deducing or inferring and all driven by the EQ.
  • Kayla Carter on 09 Oct 12
     
    As I read this article, I found that it connected project-based learning and EQ's together. It emphasized the importance of general questions that require inquiry, thought, and group discussions. It makes me want to look at my unit and come up with one-two over arching questions, and put them up in the classroom. Throughout the unit, I would reference the question and as we learned/discovered more about our topic of study, the students would be able to dig deeper and deeper into the EQ. (Just like project-based learning, where students are given problems and work to find a solution over time). By the way, I am pretty sure that I own the book that was referenced in this article. If anyone wants to borrow it, please let me know.
  • Jenny Kirkland on 09 Oct 12
     
    I find Wiggins and McTighe's views thought provoking. I've read some of their book...Understanding by Design. The framework they use is backwards. They recommend beginning with the essential questions which link to the understanding, then determine the assessment, and lastly develop your activities. I like this idea...it forces the designer to focus on the understandings and essential questions throughout the entire design process. I would like to keep my focus on my essential questions and what I want my students to truly understand.
  • Anna Helsby on 09 Oct 12
     
    I think this article reflects the importance of learning through inquiry and exploration that many of us value, especially as teachers of younger learners. The idea of an essential question being something pointed but allowing for a lifetime of thought or study is one that I'm sure many of us would hope our essential questions might capture. However, I struggle to visualize how this would look in a first grade classroom. When would we share these questions with our students, or would we not? Are these questions for us to build our lessons around or are they something we would like our students to attempt to answer in a concrete way at some point during a unit? Must they be subject specific or are there more general lines of inquiry that could be applied across the curriculum? I would be interested to read examples of effective essential questions that fall within this description that have been used with younger students, and what kind of learning this has led to.
  • kathleen dubovsky on 09 Oct 12
     
    Parts of the article made me want to reread dewey and eisner.....there is a great quote from eisner about viewing as curriculum not as something to be covered....makes me wonder what it would be like to have some large essential questions for the whole school..... And then more narrowed ones for each class..... Creating life long learners should be our goal.....i always find it disheartening when i ask students at the end of the unit of study what they are still wondering and they write "nothing"..., then i feel that i have not taught well.... But then maybe as the article states we feel that we shouldnt have questions at the end of a lesson....we have been "trained" to think that sitting through a lesson should answer all of our questions answered, when in fact the opposite is true. Sorry for the lack of punctuation and upper case letters, but i am wedding prep exhausted.
  • Michele Mathieson on 10 Oct 12
     
    I like the concept that education "is not about learning the answer but about learning how to learn". I also like the idea of having the students try and personalize the questions, trying to relate the essential questions to their lives and experiences or ideas they have had.
lisacetroni

How Simple Artifacts Can Promote Inquiry-Based Learning - 2 views

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Teaching & Inquiry based learning

shared by lisacetroni on 13 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • lisacetroni on 13 Feb 14
     
    ...makes me think of Kathleen's third grade colonial artifacts project. In this article, check out the learner-generated questions. I like that the activity revolves around three basic steps. Observe -- Think -- Question.
Michele Mathieson

9 Word Cloud Generators That Aren't Wordle - Edudemic - 1 views

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wordcloud wordle web_literacy

shared by Michele Mathieson on 21 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Michele Mathieson on 21 Feb 14
     
    If you are interested in making word clouds, check these out and also wordle.net.
Michele Mathieson

Effective Bulletin Board Ideas for Teachers | Education Closet - 0 views

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classroomdesign

shared by Michele Mathieson on 03 Nov 19 - No Cached
  • Michele Mathieson on 03 Nov 19
     
    I've noticed more and more creative uses of our bulletin boards this year in the Lower School. This article could generate some more ideas and reinforce what we are all ready doing.
lisacetroni

Authentic Education - What Is an Essential Question? - 1 views

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Curriculum Design Curriculum Mapping Essential Questions

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  • lisacetroni on 09 Oct 12
     
    Grant Wiggins is considered the guru of Essential Questions. Does this article confuse or clarify?
  • Karen LeMaire on 09 Oct 12
     
    We liked the question "How do the best writers hook and hold readers?" as a possibility for generating discussion that connects mentor texts with student writing in Writing workshop. We think the above question could also be used in RLA. Lisa posed the question "What makes a story good?" at the beginning of the year in her third grade RLA class. Karen and Lisa think both are possibilities for overarching questions that may help our students make significant connections between what they read and what and how they write. ( Lisa Keeler and Karen LeMaire worked together because Lisa forgot her iPad.)
  • Don Hancock on 09 Oct 12
     
    Good article, very concise, easy to follow. I think it clarifies things pretty nicely. I found it helpful.
Michele Mathieson

iPads in Schools binder - 6 views

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iPad apps iPad lessons iPad

shared by Michele Mathieson on 28 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Michele Mathieson on 28 Aug 11
     
    Tremendous amount of links for the iPad
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  • Lisa Keeler on 28 Aug 11
     
    Some of the links are not working. But I opened one about good apps and found many that we are already using (reassuring) and found something called AirPrint which prints from the iPad over WiFi... that might be worth exploring.
  • lisacetroni on 04 Sep 11
     
    I can't believe how much is in this binder ... and all of the sub tabs. What a wealth of information! I love the whole binder format.
  • kathleen dubovsky on 05 Sep 11
     
    Love the link to edutopia's revised blooms taxonomy...article in three parts lists apps that apply to different parts of bloom... Found great vocab app that is free through this site called bluster.
  • Kimberly Mendyka on 06 Sep 11
     
    Check out "75 tips and tricks" for general iPad help! It's a great how-to review and may come in handy for other technical questions.
  • Heidi Bennett on 06 Sep 11
     
    Read over one link that really helped with quite a few shortcuts and tips to assist while using the keyboard. So much info is there. Quite helpful!
Erica Roth

TT Difficult Conversations web.pdf - 0 views

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DEI

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  • Erica Roth on 02 Mar 20
     
    A guide for "discussing race, racism and other difficult topics with students."
Michele Mathieson

Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners | User Generated Education - 0 views

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Fridays

shared by Michele Mathieson on 06 May 17 - No Cached
  • Michele Mathieson on 06 May 17
     
    Examples that can be used during our FabLab times.
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