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As I read the chapter "Essential Questions: Doorways to Understanding" in Understanding by Design, I realized that many educators I know have an erroneous understanding of what essential questions ...
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"... according to Wiggins and McTighe, essential questions actually have one or more of the following meanings:
Essential questions are “important questions that recur throughout all our lives.” They are “broad in scope and timeless by nature.”
Essential questions refer to “core ideas and inquiries within a discipline.” They “point to the core of big ideas in a subject and to the frontiers of technical knowledge. They are historically important and alive in the field.”
Essential questions help “students effectively inquire and make sense of important but complicated ideas, knowledge, and know-how — a bridge to findings that experts may believe are settled but learners do not yet grasp or see as valuable.”
Essential questions “will most engage a specific and diverse set of learners.” They “hook and hold the attention of your students.” (108-109)"