Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice

Description

This book presents an innovative approach to teaching that helps students acquire and use knowledge in ways that go beyond rote memorization of facts and figures--to develop a level of understanding that will serve them well throughout their lives. Based on a six-year collaborative research project of school teachers and researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the book describes what teaching for understanding looks like in the classroom, and examines how teachers have learned to use it.

Part One: Foundations of Teaching for Understanding

1. Why Do We Need a Pedagogy of Understanding?

Vito Perrone

2. What is Understanding?

David Perkins

Part Two: Teaching for Understanding in the Classroom

3. What is Teaching for Understanding?

Martha Stone Wiske

4. How Do Teachers Learn to Teach for Understanding?

Martha Stone Wiske, Karen Hammerness, Daniel Gray Wilson

5. How Does Teaching for Understanding Look in Practice?

Ron Ritchart, Martha Stone Wiske, Eric Buchovecky, Lois Hetland

Part Three: Students' Understanding in the Classroom

6. What Are the Qualities of Understanding?

Veronica Boix Mansilla, Howard Gardner

7. How Do Students Demonstrate Understanding?

Lois Hetland, Karen Hammerness, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson

8. What Do Students in Teaching for Understanding Classrooms Understand?

Karen Hammerness, Rosario Jaramillo, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson

9. What Do Students Think About Understanding?

Chris Unger and Daniel Gray Wilson with Rosario Jaramillo and Roger Dempsey

Part Four: Promoting Teaching for Understanding

10. How Can We Prepare New Teachers?

Vito Perrone

11. How Can Teaching for Understanding Be ExtAnded in Schools?

Martha Stone Wiske, Lois Hetland, Eric Buchovecky

Conclusion: Melding Progressive and Traditional Perspectives

Howard Gardner

Martha Stone Wiske is a lecturer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she co-directs the Educational Techono

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  Teaching for Understanding: Challenges for Policy and Practice

  • 1993-02-19
  • 286 pages
  • Paperback
  • Wiley
• 

  Teaching for Understanding: What it is and how to Do...

  • 2011-08-11
  • 192 pages
  • Paperback
  • Routledge
• 

  Teaching for Understanding: What it is and how to Do...

  • 2000
  • 216 pages
  • Paperback
  • Psychology Press

Similar books

• 

  The Teaching for Understanding Guide

  By Tina Blythe

  The Teaching for Understanding Guide What does it mean to understand something? How do students develop understanding? How can teachers know how well they understand and support the development of...

• 

  Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding

  By Linda Darling-Hammond, P. David Pearson, Brigid Barron

  By test scores, or almost any other method of accounting, ELS has a successful track record in education reform. ... the school board must unanimously approve it, and 80 percent of school staff must agree on the proposal.

• 

  Teaching for Understanding with Technology

  By Martha Stone Wiske, Lisa Breit

  The book offers advice on tapping into a rich array of new technologies such as web information, online curricular information, and professional networks to research teaching topics, set learning goals, create innovative lesson plans, ...

• 

  Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary: Designing Lessons and Assessments for Deep Learning

  By Julie Stern, Krista Ferraro, Juliet Mohnkern

  To do this, they need conceptual understanding. This book serves as a road map for Concept-Based teaching. Discover how to help students uncover conceptual relationships and transfer them to new situations.

• 

  Understanding by Design

  By Jay McTighe, Grant P. Wiggins

  Presents a multifaceted model of understanding, which is based on the premise that people can demonstrate understanding in a variety of ways.

• 

  Teaching for Understanding with Technology

  By Martha Stone Wiske, Lisa Breit

  The book offers advice on tapping into a rich array of new technologies such as web information, online curricular information, and professional networks to research teaching topics, set learning goals, create innovative lesson plans, ...

• 

  Teaching for Understanding at University: Deep Approaches and Distinctive Ways of Thinking

  By Noel Entwistle

  This book provides an account of relevant pedagogical and psychological research.

• 

  Teaching Science for Understanding: A Human Constructivist View

  By Joel J. Mintzes, Joseph D. Novak, James H. Wandersee

  Teaching Science for Understanding

• 

  Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary: Harnessing Natural Curiosity for Learning That Transfers

  By Julie Stern, Nathalie Lauriault, Krista Ferraro

  Harness natural curiosity for conceptual understanding Nurture young learners' innate curiosity about the world and bring intellectual rigor throughout the developmental stages of childhood.

• 

  Deep Knowledge: Learning to Teach Science for Understanding and Equity

  By Douglas B. Larkin

  This book digs deep into the details of teacher learning in a way seldom attempted in teacher education textbooks.