Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings

Today's Outcomes:

- Develop/construct common understandings about Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions.

- Revise/create Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for each priority standard in the updated Projection Maps.

Enduring Understanding Revisions

Getting to know your tools

Practice: Stronger/Clearer Protocol

Checklist:

- Does the EU match the identified standard on the projection map?

- Does the EU identify a big idea (answers WHY)?

- Is the EU in student-friendly language?

ReadyGEN Enduring Understandings

Your turn!

After Modules 1 A+B are complete, let's pause to share out and calibrate.

Checklist:

- Does the EU match the identified standard?

- Does the EU identify a big idea (answers WHY)?

- Is the EU in student-friendly language?

(Standard) helps me (enduring concept).

Readers understand the actions and motivations of characters in stories. (RL.3.3)

Writers understand that pictures and words about events help tell a story.(W.K.3)

Learners understand that sharing observations about the weather helps us gain information. (no standard)

Where we're going:

GOAL: Aligned, guaranteed and viable curriculum

Your turn!

Ainsworth Ch. 5

Try this out for U1 MA.

Let's share this out before we move on.

- Gives a foundational understanding of how EUs/EQs fit within the big picture of Assessment Design

- Our Standards are already chosen and unpacked for us (yay!)

3rd Grade Module 2A (RL: 2)

How do readers identify central messages in literary texts?

Connecting character, culture, and community

ReadyGEN Revisions

Project tracker!!!

5th Unit 2 Module A

(RL:2 (theme/summarize/respond to challenges))

How do readers summarize text?

Kinder Unit 4 Module A (RL:9)

How do readers compare and contrast the experiences of different characters?

Learning about each other and the world

Finding courage/responding to challenges

How does comparing and contrasting the experiences of different characters help me learn about myself and others?

- Aligned Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for every Module.

What are Essential Questions?

What are Enduring Understandings?

Calibrating Essential Questions

What were your classifiers for EQs/Non-EQs?

A good essential question:

- Is open-ended; that is, it typically will not have a single, final, and correct answer.

- Is thought-provoking and intellectually engaging, often sparking discussion and debate.

- Calls for higher-order thinking, such as analysis, inference, evaluation, prediction. It cannot be effectively answered by recall alone.

- Points toward important, transferable ideas within (and sometimes across) disciplines.

- Raises additional questions and sparks further inquiry.

- Requires support and justification, not just an answer.

- Recurs over time; that is, the question can and should be revisited again and again.

- Understanding By Design (2013), McTighe and Wiggins

Do you know any kids that act crazy? Why do they act that way?

Common Pitfalls of EQ writers:

- The Hook

- The Lead

- The Guide

Which letters are vowels?

When did the main character begin to suspect his former friend?

"Big Ideas [enduring understandings] are the essential understandings specific to the unit standards that the educators want the students to realize and be able to articulate in their own words" (pp 79).

"Essential Questions serve three important functions. They (1) center instruction on the "unwrapped" Priority Standards, (2) align instruction with preplanned assessments, and (3) lead students to the discovery of Big Ideas [enduring understandings] on their own by the end of the unit of study" (pp 83).

Analyzing varying points of view from multiple accounts of an event/topic helps me form my own opinion.

(Standard) helps me (enduring concept).

When writing my own opinion, it will be stronger with supported reasons and relevant information.

What makes a good Essential Question?

Let's find out what we think!

Writing requires an organizational structure so that the author's ideas are presented, supported, and summarized effectively.

- Create revised Module Post-Assessments (PBA Replacements) by April 21 (Unit 1 A/B) and August 10 (rest of units).

Next Steps:

Due Date: March 1 / IL Content

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Anticipation Guide

Based on your pre-work reading, previous understandings, and beliefs, please fill out the Anticipation Guide.

Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings Alignment