How students learn : history, mathematics, and science in the classroom / Committee on How People Learn, A Targeted Report for Teachers ; M. Suzanne Donovan and John D. Bransford, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on How People Learn, A Targeted Report for Teachers.

Contributor:

Donovan, Suzanne.

Bransford, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning.

Classroom management.

Curriculum planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling How People Learn . Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students (TM) knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children (TM)s education.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Preface

Contents

1 Introduction

Part I HISTORY

2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History

3 Putting Principles into Practice: Teaching and Planning

4 "They Thought the World Was Flat?" Applying the Principles of How People Learn in Teaching High School History

Part II MATHEMATICS

5 Mathematical Understanding: An Introduction

6 Fostering the Development of Whole-Number Sense: Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Grades

7 Pipes, Tubes, and Beakers: New Approaches to Teaching the Rational-Number System

8 Teaching and Learning Functions

Part III SCIENCE

9 Scientific Inquiry and How People Learn

10 Teaching to Promote the Development of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning About Light at the Elementary School Level

11 Guided Inquiry in the Science Classroom

12 Developing Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry

A FINAL SYNTHESIS: REVISITING THE THREE LEARNING PRINCIPLES

13 Pulling Threads

Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors

Index.

Notes:

"Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780309547962

9786612083877

9780309133036

0309133033

9781282083875

1282083872

9780309547963

0309547962

OCLC:

62456475