Central+Ideas+13+May+2015

1. How do you ensure the CI is conceptually based? 2. How important is the wording of the CI? 3. Should we have students figure out the CI during the course of the unit? 4. What do you do if the students take the inquiry in a different direction from the CI? 5. At what point in a unit do you disclose the central idea? 6. Do you display the lines of inquiry and/or teacher questions? Why/why not? 7. Would you prefer to see the CI expressed as an essential question? Why? 8. What is the purpose of CI? To guide planning or learning? Who is it for? Word it for teachers or students? 9. How is the displayed CI used explicitly during the unit? 10. How important is it to unpack the CI and when?
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 * Resources from AP Chat 14th May 2015 **
 * [|What? Ditch the Central Idea? Conference with Lynn Erickson] - blog post by @ChezVivian **
 * [|The purpose of a Central Idea] - blog post by McGuigan **