Teaching for Understanding

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 Understanding1. Why Do We Need a Pedagogy of Understanding?Vito Perrone2. What is Understanding?David PerkinsPart Two: Teaching for Understanding in the Classroom3. What is Teaching for Understanding?Martha Stone Wiske4. How Do Teachers Learn to Teach for Understanding?Martha Stone Wiske, Karen Hammerness, Daniel Gray Wilson5. How Does Teaching for Understanding Look in Practice?Ron Ritchart, Martha Stone Wiske, Eric Buchovecky, Lois HetlandPart Three: Students` Understanding in the Classroom6. What Are the Qualities of Understanding?Veronica Boix Mansilla, Howard Gardner7. How Do Students Demonstrate Understanding?Lois Hetland, Karen Hammerness, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson8. What Do Students in Teaching for Understanding Classrooms Understand?Karen Hammerness, Rosario Jaramillo, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson9. What Do Students Think About Understanding?Chris Unger and Daniel Gray Wilson with Rosario Jaramillo and Roger DempseyPart Four: Promoting Teaching for Understanding10. How Can We Prepare New Teachers?Vito Perrone11. How Can Teaching for Understanding Be ExtAnded in Schools?Martha Stone Wiske, Lois Hetland, Eric BuchoveckyConclusion: Melding Progressive and Traditional PerspectivesHoward GardnerMartha Stone Wiske is a lecturer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she co-directs the Educational Techono Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.