Essential
Questions
for Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill School
"Developing
Essential Questions"
The
goal of this webpage is to guide teachers through the process
of developing essential questions that will bring students
beyond basic fact gathering to higher levels of inquiry.
Creating
the Essential Question
~key components
From Trivial Pursuit
to Essential Questions by
Jamie McKenzie
How many Gargoyles are on the Cathedral of Notre Dame? Who cares?
How can we redirect our questioning to make sense?
Filling the Toolbox
~classroom strategies to engender student questioning
Telling
Questions and the Search for Insight
~strategies for developing those questions that assist in student insight
Questioning Toolkit
~contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools to bring powerful
questioning technologies and techniques to students
~consider printing poster versions for display in your classroom
Using Essential
Questions
~the research cycle
Problem-solving
Strategies
~fifty (50) problem-solving strategies
Levels
of Research Modules
~three (3) levels of modules that teachers can use in their classroom for 1
hour, a few days, or a week
~use these as samples of what you can create
Extended
Learning Questions
~questions that instruct students to comprehend, apply, analyze, and evaluate
what they have learned
~makes students consider the content of their assignment, helps them explore
different aspects, and inspires individual creative thought processes
The
Big 6
Developed
by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the Big6 is the most widely-known
and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology
skills in the world. Used in thousands of K-12 schools, higher
education institutions, and corporate and adult training programs,
the Big6 information problem-solving model is applicable whenever
people need and use information. The Big6 integrates information
search and use skills along with technology tools in a systematic
process to find, use, apply, and evaluate information to specific
needs and tasks.
To
educate to live effectively in an ever-changing world
