Module 1.2
Module 1.2
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Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Learning Intention 1.2a
Learning Intention 1.2a
Curriculum writers will understand the definition and purpose of Essential Questions.
Read Chapter 1 of Wiggins & McTighe's Essential Questions: Doors to Student Understanding.
As you read, consider...
What is the definition of Essential Questions?
What other types of questions are there?
How can you tell the difference between Essential Questions and other types of questions?
Learning Intention 1.2b
Learning Intention 1.2b
Curriculum writers will understand how HCS defines Essential Questions.
Read the following resources from HCS to review Essential Questions:
HCS Essential Questions Curriculum Writing Academy Presentation. Make sure that you read the Notes sections for each slide, which provide important context and information about Essential Questions.
As you read, consider...
How do the above articles expound on the original work from Wiggins and McTighe? What does HCS add to the conversation about Essential Questions?
What are the HCS “rules” for using Essential Questions in your curriculum writing? (This comes from the presentation).
Learning Intention 1.2c
Learning Intention 1.2c
Curriculum writers will understand the requirements for HCS Essential Questions.
Review the Curriculum Writing Checklist section on Essential Questions.
As you read, consider...
Which checklist items do you think are most important?
Which do you think you are most likely to forget when writing curriculum? Pay special attention to these.
Note that if your work does not meet the expectations on the Checklist, it will be returned and you will be asked to revise and resubmit. It’s easier to do it right the first time!
Learning Intention 1.2d
Learning Intention 1.2d
Curriculum writers will understand how to put Essential Questions into the Learning Experiences.
Review the following resources to get ideas for how to use Essential Questions in classroom activities.
As you read, consider...
Why is it important to use Essential Questions with students? Why does the curriculum need to provide examples to teachers of how to use the various Essential Questions with students? What activities do you think would work best for the content area and grade level of the students for which you are writing?
Watch some of these short videos of a teacher using Understandings and Essential Questions to help develop social awareness by using collaborative instructional techniques. Choose videos closest to the content area and grade level of your students.
Kindergarten ELA (Turn and Talk)
Grade 1 Math (Turn and Talk with a Partner)
Elementary ELA Small Group (What Do I Wonder?)
Middle School Science (Using Nearpod’s collaborate board to generate answers to Essential
Questions)
Middle School ELA (How do different people react in difficult situations?)
High School Spanish (Who Am I?)
High School Science (To what extent can we manage change?)
When you're ready, take the Essential Questions quiz. You may take the quiz as many times as you want and it is open book, but it does have a 1-hour time limit each time you take it. Do not move on until you score a 90% or higher.
The secret word is: McTighe
Done with the 1.2 quiz?
Go to Module 1.3.
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