by Justin Scoggin, Hybrid Pedagogy
My favorite pedagogical tool is the essential question. Briefly, these attempt to focus student attention on the broader implications and deeper meanings behind content. I had been using them in my own quaint way before reading Understanding by Design by Wiggins and McTighe, and that reading both confirmed my intuition and pushed my use of this strategy to a higher level.
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Essential_Questions.html#unique-entry-id-176
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