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Essential Questions: Opening Doors To Student Understanding (2013)

by Jay McTighe(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1416615059 (ISBN13: 9781416615057)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development

review 1: This book was provided to all of the teachers in my building for a book study, as the administration (myself included) will be focusing on questioning and essential questions during evaluations in the coming school year. The content of the book is important, and it's filled with excellent examples of essential questions in several content areas. I personally found the book to be quite dry, but I could tell the authors were attempting to make the subject as interesting as possible with their content-specific examples of questions and the parallels the authors drew between teaching, questioning, and coaching sports. I think I would have enjoyed reading it more had I read it as part of a discussion group that met regularly to reflect upon the book.
review 2: This ... moreis an easy read for a PD book. It gets right to the point, is filled with excellent examples of what essential questions are (and are not), and doesn't leave out subjects like foreign language or the arts. All this and without being preachy or overly dramatic about the research (or heavy handed about UbD). The one area where I think it would be helpful to have more specific examples is the end of unit project or assignment that ties back to the essential questions. These are mentioned but only briefly and superficially in my opinion. less

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