The Teaching for Understanding Guide

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SKU: 9780787909932
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By Tina Blythe

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The Teaching for Understanding Guide offers a thorough walkthrough of the 'teaching for understanding' approach. It includes classroom examples, practical tips, and worksheets designed to help teachers select engaging topics, set coherent goals, create dynamic learning activities, and enhance student performance through ongoing feedback.
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Ideal for teachers and educators aiming to deepen student engagement and understanding, as well as those interested in practical, proven teaching strategies.

"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.

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"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

The Teaching for Understanding Guide 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.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised as a Baedeker's Guide to fostering deep and resourceful student understanding, the handbook encourages and supports teachers committed to this challenge. Theodore R. Sizer notes its usefulness in helping students think constructively, while Ann Lieberman highlights how it engages and inspires educators with fresh ideas applicable in real classrooms.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780787909932

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 1997

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 211.0mm

Height: 269.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

THE AUTHOR

A former middle and high school teacher, Tina Blythe is a researcher for Project Zero at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.