“The important thing is not to stop questioning” Albert Einstein.
This chapter gives great importance to what we know is the beginning of any research: A question! But is it possible that a question can change the course of anything?
People who have made their own researches can tell the great importance of a proper question. So after writing about it, my question is: How do I make an essential question? Or maybe: How do I know that my question is really essential?
According to Wiggins and McTighe, an essential question leads people to big ideas by staying focused on goals - Let’s recall that we must always stick to the goals.
In my opinion, simple questions can lead students to answers, and teachers or researchers to great projects, as well as great and extremely well designed questions. The most important thing to consider is to be creative enough to make the best, most accurate question.
Teachers do not give answers to students. A teacher leads students to let them find their own answers.
It all depends on the kind of students we are delaing with. Some of them just want and expect answers from teachers, and do almost nothing to go and search their own ones. Is it possible to make them work on it? Hope so...
ResponderEliminarI think that it is important that teachers provide the tools and encourage students as well to inquire about different situations and problems by themselves and try to find a solution to them in every aspect of their lives.
ResponderEliminarTeachers do not give answers to students. A teacher leads students to let them find their own answers.....
ResponderEliminarI thought about what you wrote and I know lost of teachers who wouldn't wait for students' answers, just as if they were underestimating their students...is it that teacher don't rely on the students or is it that we don't know how ro facilitate knowledge?
I agree with you since questions can be very simple but at the same time accurate and essential to get what we or our students need. Simple questions can lead to other questions and they can also be part of developing critical and creative thinking. The important thing here is thinking about the questions we are making, they do not have to be so complicated but accurate and what is also important, is to give students the time and space to think and be able to answer in a good way.
ResponderEliminarI liked a lot the comment of the great Eistein... that idea represents all that the chapter tries to say to us.
ResponderEliminarQuestions are relevant when somebody wants to learn.
I totally agree with you! we should guide our students and make them think about they own answers.
ResponderEliminarIt is true to give importance to how to make essential questions, but also what we can do to improve their answers. I think one way is to give them more reading about different issues.
ResponderEliminarThat's right. Reading and reflection are fundamental to develop not only good questions but also good answers that lead to more questions...
ResponderEliminarI totally agree with you!
ResponderEliminarThe tipoc here is to lead our students to make those questions... Not just answer them
My claim is how to lead them on those questions when even us don't know how to make them...
A topic to discuss...
I agree on the fact that here essential questions are not the aim.These questions generate more questions with more answers which lead to critical thinking, the final ideal objective that we must achieve.
ResponderEliminarthe questions should be something very simple, but something that could help to them to react and have an opinion, in other words: to reflect. We need to give students the space and time of doing it.
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