- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (Oct 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0787910023
- ISBN-13: 978-0787910020
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.1 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #259,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This book is equal parts theory and practice. It is a superb example of what educators in universities and schools can accomplish when they engage in sincere efforts to benefit students." --Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
"A remarkable work, conceptually bold and practical. It makes the best of contemporary practices seem eminently reasonable, while also offering a framework for making teaching for understanding accessible to our teachers." --Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas and founder, Central Park East Public Schools, East Harlem, New York
"At last, a new volume from a team of scholars at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Project Zero that takes teaching, learning, and understanding, as both theory and practice. My congratulations to Howard Gardner, David Perkins, and Vito Perrone for a project well-conceived and well-conducted, and to Stone Wiske for a useful, educator-friendly book." --Lee S. Shulman, president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
"As the authors acknowledge, teaching for understanding is an old idea and a simple one. But their lucid and thorough exploration of it is fresh and richly generative--and compelling too, in a way reserved for ideas that seem as practical as they are provocative. A whole range of people who care about teaching will be drawn to this book, and they will be well served." --Joe McDonald, director of research, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
"A remarkable work, conceptually bold and practical. It makes the best of contemporary practices seem eminently reasonable, while also offering a framework for making teaching for understanding accessible to our teachers." --Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas and founder, Central Park East Public Schools, East Harlem, New York
"At last, a new volume from a team of scholars at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Project Zero that takes teaching, learning, and understanding, as both theory and practice. My congratulations to Howard Gardner, David Perkins, and Vito Perrone for a project well-conceived and well-conducted, and to Stone Wiske for a useful, educator-friendly book." --Lee S. Shulman, president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
"As the authors acknowledge, teaching for understanding is an old idea and a simple one. But their lucid and thorough exploration of it is fresh and richly generative--and compelling too, in a way reserved for ideas that seem as practical as they are provocative. A whole range of people who care about teaching will be drawn to this book, and they will be well served." --Joe McDonald, director of research, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
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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
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
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Teaching for understanding-the view that what students learn needs to be internalized, able to be used in many different circumstances in and out of classrooms, serving as a base for ongoing and extended learning, always alive with possibilities-has long been endorsed as a primary educational goal in the schools. Read the first page
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Teaching for understanding-the view that what students learn needs to be internalized, able to be used in many different circumstances in and out of classrooms, serving as a base for ongoing and extended learning, always alive with possibilities-has long been endorsed as a primary educational goal in the schools. Read the first page
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A new way of teaching,
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This review is from: Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice (Hardcover)
This book makes a lot of sense. It is surprising and disappointing to find that most teachers do not teach this way. The book is full of research and examples of how to ensure that students get the most out of any curriculum. Hopefully the teaching strategies outlined in this book will become the standard instead of the exception.
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This review is from: Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice (Hardcover)
This book makes a lot of sense. It is surprising and disappointing to find that most teachers do not teach this way. The book is full of research and examples of how to ensure that students get the most out of any curriculum. Hopefully the teaching strategies outlined in this book will become the standard instead of the exception.
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