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
In any kind of learning, asking the best questions possible yields both vital knowledge discovery and powerful personal insights for the learner. Asking good questions is a fundamental practice in using the Essential Fluencies, especially Solution Fluency and... 
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
Students need to do more than memorize facts. They’ll write papers that give them an opportunity to analyze information and present their own conclusions. They’ll analyze important historical or scientific moments of our culture. They’ll give oral... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
The Essential Fluencies are a solid foundation for effective modern learning. They cover all the bases of the skills students need for success beyond school. Developing these Fluencies in our students is a critical thinking journey in itself. That’s why... 
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 | Essential Questions
An essential question is an incredibly powerful tool for discovery learning and critical thinking skill development. Here’s a catch, though—if you get the answer that you were looking for it doesn’t mean that you’ve asked an essential question in the... 
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...