STLinSTL 2019

Do students often say your class has made them think more than any they had before? Do students regularly leave your room still passionately discussing the lesson as they walk down the hall? Do students write you hand-written notes at the end of the year saying how grateful they were to have been challenged by the depth of inquiry your course required?
If not, you likely haven’t discovered the simple joy of teaching with great essential questions.

Essential questions are one of the most efficient ways to design curriculum and assessments with a deep, lasting impact on student learning. Yet most teachers aren’t sure how to tap their power.

This practical, creative session first clarifies what is and isn’t an essential question, a key misunderstanding in education. Then, participants of all grade levels and disciplines will learn how to re-frame their existing curriculum around core essential questions designed for deep inquiry and long-term learning.

Leave this session absolutely inspired and invigorated, with a toolbox full of great essential questions to transform any course, whether it is U.S. History, A.P. Biology, Statistics, World Literature, or anything in between.