Teaching for Understanding
Teaching for Understanding
Teaching for Understanding
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Teaching for Understanding

Martha Stone Wiske

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01-October-1997
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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
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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

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