Over the years I’ve noticed something about professional development. Whenever a new teaching strategy is introduced, there tends to be a focus on the many benefits of the strategy but little consideration of what must be given up to enjoy those benefits. This is unfortunate because assessing the costs of a strategy alongside its promised benefits is the only way to make a smart decision as to whether it is worthy of adoption.
So let’s not make the same mistake with the Big Questions approach to teaching.
We ended last week’s post with a question: What are the overriding benefits of using the Big Question approach that justify the costs?
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Socrates Questions 