Do you know what essential questions are and how they can benefit your students and classroom?
Here’s a question for you: Do you use essential questions in your classroom?
Here’s an essential question for you: Why should you use essential questions in your classroom?
To say it has been “quite the year” would be an understatement.
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the movements for racial justice and the turmoil of the election, the country has dealt with issues of an unprecedented magnitude during the last year. The field of education has had its own challenges, most notably a sudden pivot to remote and virtual learning.
Last summer, we posted a blog sharing five reasons we love Pathways2.0, our faith-based, customized reading and language arts curriculum for grades 1–8. But we didn’t ask you to take our word for it . . . we shared testimonies from parents and teachers across the country who love it, too!
Today, we’re doing the same for our faith-based elementary science curriculum, ByDesign Science. Once again, we’re using the thoughts of those who know best: educators nationwide.
I was once enrolled in a course called Professional Writing, where we discussed not only workplace communication but also basic principles of graphic design. My professor’s catchphrase that semester was “naming gives you power.” If we were able to articulate why we made the design choices we made—and articulate them using authentic design terminology—our work would be stronger. Better yet, we would understand why it was stronger, which would allow us to continue making strong choices.
As the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools in March of 2020, the focus of many parents, teachers, and administrators was on how students would make up the academic content they were going to miss. How would we ensure that students hit the educational milestones necessary to keep them on track?
But even as members of the educational community were focusing on these important academic issues, many were also voicing concerns about the social-emotional well-being of the students. How would we support them as people—not just students, but people—through this crisis?
This past summer, we posted a blog sharing five reasons we love Pathways2.0, our faith-based, customized reading and language arts curriculum for grades 1–8. But we didn’t ask you to take our word for it . . . we shared testimonies from parents and teachers across the country who love it, too!
Today, we’re doing the same for our faith-based kindergarten curriculum, Kindergarten Stepping Stones. Once again, we’re using the thoughts of those who know best: educators nationwide.
