Essential Questions - follow-up

Evidence of some great thinking going on in your comment posts to the Essential Questions assignment! Everyone is thinking BIG - above the specific details of the unit and out to the over-arching importance of the learning. Remember that true EQs are controlling ideas for large chunks of learning, the guiding forces or purposes for designing a learning unit. They first must direct your choice of material and secondarily will give purpose to learning for your students.

Before you let go of the idea, try writing EQs for other units in your teaching year, including those you have already done. Write these down somewhere so you can wrestle with them again when you come to prepare the units. Hey, if you stick them somewhere in YOUR blog, you might get someone else's help with refining them.