num_pages: 144
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 SchoolsWalks 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.
language: English
title: The Teaching for Understanding Guide
titlecomplete: The Teaching for Understanding Guide
genres: Teaching, Textbooks, Reference, Education, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Jossey-Bass