When I was a classroom teacher I began each unit of study with an essential question that I expected my students to be able to answer in depth by the conclusion of the unit. This question served as a bridge to the unit’s content and themes, and could only be satisfactorily answered after unpacking, exploring, and analyzing many layers of material. A thorough, thoughtful investigation might take the student to a place of deeper and enduring understandings that would stick beyond the final test. Now that training camp has started for the Golden State Warriors, we begin our study of the 2016-2017 NBA season, and with the preseason commencing on Saturday in Vancouver, I pose a few essential questions and some accompanying thoughts.
Essential Questions
