The Teaching for Understanding Guide

by Tina Blythe

Book Overview

"This handbook will both encourage and assist those teachers whotake on the important challenge of helping their students to thinkdeeply and resourcefully and to use that intellectual powerconstructively."
--Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools

Walks teachers through the "teaching for understanding" process.The authors offer classroom examples, practical tips, andworksheets to help clarify the process. They also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787909939
• ISBN13: 9780787909932
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book for educators

This is an outstanding short book for teachers of all ages. It presents a good summary of ideas and suggestions that work in classrooms and that are based on solid research. The book is nicely structured to be used by a single teacher or as a faculty looking to improve their students' learning.

understand what you do.

This book rekindled my love for teaching. It reminded me of Tales of the Dolly Llama, by Guy Kuttner. Both go to the heart of education, if you don't understand, discard it.

Excellent Book

This book was very helpful to me while developing a learning program for a class on Teaching for Understanding. It really gave me step-by-step detailed information on how the teaching for understanding pedagogy works, in a clear, useable format.

Great opportunity to reflect on the nature of understanding.

This guide presents the Teaching for Understanding framework in highly readable and concrete ways. The guide asks teachers to explore what they most want their students to understand, helps them evaluate their current practice and asks teachers to evaluate how well they know if their students understand what they are teaching.In each chapter comments by teachers and students involved in this process are shared. They are most helpful as are the brainstorming chart and the reflection checklist in chapter 8.I'll never look at assessment,planning, goals and objectives in quite the same way that I used to before reading this book. I am challenged by its ideas to act to change my practice.