Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice

by Martha Stone Wiske

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787910023
• ISBN13: 9780787910020
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A new way of teaching

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.