A question is essential if it's useful, if it is coherent with our teaching goals. As teachers we have to pose it in connection with follow up activities they will just lead to yes/no answers or cause confusion.
Essential questions do not lead to a final answer, but to provisional findings and new questions. This means that - when posing a question - our goal must be to teach students how to learn.
We must always be clear on why we pose a question, how we intend students to tackle it and what we expect for learning activities and assessments as a result.
The final idea I want to emphasize is that important questions demand transfer beyond the particular context in which we find them. We must make sure they stay in the student mind so they can promote conceptual connections and curriculum coherence.
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