by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
In any great lesson, an essential question is what drives your learners’ quest for knowledge and discovery. How do we begin writing essential questions that matter and that inspire our learners? One of the transformations occurring in modern learning is students...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Uncategorized
An essential question is an incredibly powerful tool for discovery learning and critical thinking skill development. Essential and herding questions are also one of the 10 shifts of practice of future-focused learning. If you consider what learning actually is, it is...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
Think for a moment about the “best” question someone has ever asked you. As soon as it was posed to you, what happened? It may have caused you to stop and ponder what was being asked. You may have been inspired to think about related events in the present and...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of our original article on essential questions examples featuring new links to useful EQ tools and more. So many essential questions examples, so little time. Grant Wiggins once said, “The big-idea questions signal that...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Global Digital Citizen
Teaching Global Digital Citizenship is all about asking the right questions. Today kids are building the foundations of a digital culture. They are contributors, creators, communicators, and designers. They author, produce and provide digital information all the time....
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
As our students begin to get ready for life outside of school, they will have questions—lots and lots of them. The biggest and perhaps most awe-inspiring one of all will simply be What Now? In truth, they can find out by quizzing themselves critically and thoughtfully...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
The act of truly understanding essential questions is something we have explored for centuries. Teachers, philosophers, warriors, poets, musicians and the like have always asked the big questions. It has brought them to knowledge, self-fulfillment, and joyful...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
In any great lesson, an essential question is what drives your students’ quest for knowledge and discovery of the unknown. So what makes a question “essential?” Let’s find out together! To help you discover more about how you can develop your...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Information Fluency, Leadership, Teaching
“Educator and writer Dana Huff manages an informative and thoughtful blog called huffenglish.com, and this post she featured a while back about understanding the essence of what creates a truly effective essential question is timeless and powerful. If you were...
