Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice

Editor(s): Martha Stone Wiske

Media: Hardcover

Description: This book describes an innovative approach to teaching that helps take students beyond the rote memorization of facts and figures to levels of understanding that will serve them well throughout their lives. The book is filled with rich examples gathered during six years of collaboration between reflective classroom teachers and researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. At the heart of the approach is a framework that transforms traditional teaching by providing clear and coherent guidance in:

• choosing curriculum topics;
  
• defining explicit goals;
  
• designing learning activities;
  
• fostering student understanding; and
  
• assessing students‘ performance.