The Teaching for Understanding Guide


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Description

"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 show how toselect engaging and appropriate topics, set coherent unit andcourse goals, create dynamic learning activities, improve studentperformance through continual feedback, and more.

Author: Tina Blythe
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 11/02/1999
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 11.05h x 8.56w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9780787909932
ISBN10: 0787909939
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Classroom Management
- Education | Teaching | General
- Education | Learning Styles

About the Author

THE AUTHOR

A former middle and high school teacher, Tina Blythe is a researcher for Project Zero at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.