https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs en-us 2016-07-20 01:48:32 UTC 2023-02-28 07:52:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699233 I have used EQs in my class to help students know what the focus is. Usually they are posted on the board or within the assignment that is given for the day or week. During Good to Great, we used EQs to help guide the unit and students were then required to answer one of the four questions at the end of the unit. There were smaller questions during close reading that helped students organize their thoughts and could be used as an aid when finally answering the EQ. 

Howard

]]> 2016-07-20 14:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699233 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699274 I have had to use them for daily lessons, and for overall units to guide lines of questioning for student discussion and exit tickets.
Gremillion]]> 2016-07-20 14:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699274 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699294 I think essential questions are best used when a teacher seems to be arriving at the answer with the students--not dragging the students to a pre-ordained arrival spot that they were going to get to whether or  not the kids engaged with the question.  I am Joe.]]> 2016-07-20 14:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699294 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699319 I use essential questions to hook kids into a lesson and give them an idea of where the lesson is moving. I use them to inspire discussion, reasoning, and deeper thinking.]]> 2016-07-20 14:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699319 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699324 We called them inquiry or knowledge questions but I have had to use them in every unit when I taught at an IB school. They were always very broad and applicable to other topics. ]]> 2016-07-20 14:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699324 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699329 2016-07-20 14:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699329 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699334 I have seen them used as hooks into the content, and related to real life situations we experience.]]> 2016-07-20 14:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699334 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699337 I've seen essential questions being used to guide the lesson. ]]> 2016-07-20 14:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699337 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699338 I have used essential questions at the beginning of the unit.  There are open ended questions that by the end of the unit, students should be able to answer throughout, and definitely by the end of the unit.  They are mostly (but should not be limited to) the "hows" and "whys".  There are questions that can't be answered by fact recall, but more so encourage students to critically think about a topic.  --Claire]]> 2016-07-20 14:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699338 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699348 I have seen essential questions being used across a unit. For example, the teacher will revisit the essential question with students daily, so that students can integrate their new knowledge into a more complex understanding of the topic. I also notice that essential questions are open-ended, so that there is not only one possible answer for a question, but many possible, complex responses. ]]> 2016-07-20 14:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699348 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699378 2016-07-20 14:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699378 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699379 I have used essential questions to invest students in a unit and sometimes to hook students.]]> 2016-07-20 14:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699379 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699453 I have used Essential questions to help guide to the ultimate question i would use for my class understanding the direction im headed]]> 2016-07-20 14:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699453 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699493 Ignite discussion in the classroom about how & why questions. ]]> 2016-07-20 14:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699493 avanhorn2 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699502 Essential questions can add mystery and intrigue when introducing a new unit! It's best if kids can connect every lesson back to one or a few of the unit EQs. Awesome to use in end of unit assessments somehow. ]]> 2016-07-20 14:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699502 https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699557 Lawson

Essential questions drive instruction. (when I'm not pounding facts into their memory for an mlq that happens 3 times a week!)...

EQs allow you to be culturally responsive when the state standards require focus on periods of history that treats them as invisible.]]> 2016-07-20 14:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ckrause3/EQs/wish/116699557