What makes a question essential?

Teachers regularly pose questions to their students, but the purpose and form of these questions can vary widely.  Read and examine the characteristics of an essential question in Chapter 1 of Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understandin Links to an external site.g by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins.  Then reflect on what you have read by answering the following essential question: "What makes a question essential?" Links to an external site.

 

 

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