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“This book demonstrates the ways in which questions can address your concerns and develop in our students the mental acuity and fluency necessary to succeed in school and at work,” Jim Burke writes, “as well as to achieve a sense of purpose in their personal lives.” The only question now is:
Are you ready to change your students’ learning and lives?
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people have written about how theory (or research) relates to practice; Jim is one of those rare “ Many professionals who live the relationship. His book is rich with insights from other scholars and teachers, woven together in a convincing web of argument and insight. But the book is just as rich in classroom experience, using the wisdom of the expert practitioner to focus his arguments on the lives of his
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students—in all their richness and complexity.
—Arthur Applebee NAEP advisor Validation Committee member for Common Core Author of Curriculum as Conversation
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Why a book about questions? “Because when students’ instruction is organized around meaningful, clear questions,” writes Jim Burke in What’s the Big Idea? “they understand better, remember longer, and engage much more deeply and for greater periods of time.”
“Questions can address your concerns and help students succeed in school and at work, as well as to achieve a sense of purpose in their personal lives.”
The question Jim Burke has always tried to
Jim shows how making essential questions the center of
answer is How can we teach our students better?
your teaching can ease the tension between good teaching
He began this search at Burlingame High School
and teaching to the test while giving students dependable,
in California, where he still teaches. He shared his
transferable tools for reading, writing, thinking, and
experiences in bestselling Heinemann professional titles such as The English Teacher’s Companion; Reading Reminders; and Writing Reminders as well as through Heinemann
participating in the real world. Going in depth on his own units for frequently taught books, Jim shows how to plan lessons, units, and even entire courses around big ideas to help students: • grapple with content and deepen comprehension through reading, writing, and discussion
Professional Development Services. Later, he founded the English Companion Ning, described by Education Week as “the world’s largest English
• make learning stick by connecting it to texts, to students’ experiences, and to the world
department.” Jim continues to find and support best practices by serving on national commissions, such as the Advanced Placement English Literature and Language Course and Exam Review Commission, and as a senior author on the Holt McDougal Harcourt Literature series.
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• clarify and extend their thinking by learning which questions to ask and when • improve school and test performance by honing academic language and skills.
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