The teaching for understanding guide / Tina Blythe and the teachers and researchers of the Teaching for Understanding Project.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blythe, Tina, 1964-

Contributor:

Teaching for Understanding Project.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--Case studies.

Teaching.

Educational tests and measurements.

Learning.

Comprehension--Study and teaching.

Comprehension.

Comprehension--Study and teaching--Case studies.

Learning--Case studies.

Educational tests and measurements--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 121 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1998]

Summary:

"This handbook will both encourage and assist those teachers who take on the important challenge of helping their students to think deeply and resourcefully and to use that intellectual power constructively."--Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools

Walks teachers through the "teaching for understanding" process. The authors offer classroom examples, practical tips, and worksheets to help clarify the process. They also show how to select engaging and appropriate topics, set coherent unit and course goals, create dynamic learning activities, improve student performance through continual feedback, and more.

Contents:

What this guide is (and isn't). What this guide is. What this guide is not. About the format. About the case studies. Suggestions for enhancing the book's usefulness

Understanding understanding. The difficulty of teaching for understanding. What is understanding? How do students learn for understanding?

The teaching for understanding framework. The four parts of the framework. What's new here?

Generative topics. Case study: finding generativity in a history unit. Key features of generative topics. Planning generative topics. Teaching with generative topics. Common questions about generative topics.

Understanding goals. Case study: creating unit and course understanding goals in an English class. Key features of understanding goals. Goals that do not emphasize understanding. Planning unit-long understanding goals. Planning overarching understanding goals. Teaching with understanding goals. Common questions about understanding goals.

Performances of understanding. Case study: developing performaces of understanding for a science unit. Key features of performances of understanding. Performances that do not necessarily show understanding. Planning performances of understanding. Teaching with performances of understanding. Common questions about performances of understanding

Ongoing assessment. Case study: embedding ongoing assessment in a geometry unit. Key features of ongoing assessment. Assessment that does not support understanding. Planning ongoing assessment. Teaching with ongoing assessment. Common questions about ongoing assessment.

Tips and tools for plannining and teaching. Getting started. A planning process. Teaching with the framework.

Teaching for understanding and other educational practices. Comparing the framework to other teaching strategies.

Notes:

Companion guide to: Teaching for understanding / Martha Stone Wiske, editor. 1998.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0787909939

OCLC:

37370209