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Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice

ISBN: 978-0-7879-1002-0
Hardcover
400 pages
October 1997, Jossey-Bass
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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 Extended in Schools?(Martha Stone Wiske, Lois Hetland, Eric Buchovecky).

Conclusion: Melding Progressive and Traditional Perspectives(Howard Gardner).

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