The teaching for understanding guide
By: Tina Blythe and the researchers and teachers of the Teaching for Understanding Project.
Contributors: Teaching for Understanding Project.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Teaching -- Case studies; Comprehension -- Study and teaching -- Case studies; Learning -- Case studies; Educational tests and measurements -- Case studies
Other titles: Teaching for understanding.
Notes: Companion guide to: Teaching for understanding / Martha Stone Wiske, editor. 1998.
Table of contents: title: What this guide is (and isn't). What this guide is. What this guide is not. About the format. About the case studies. Suggestions for enhancing the book's usefulness; title: Understanding understanding. The difficulty of teaching for understanding. What is understanding? How do students learn for understanding?; title: The teaching for understanding framework. The four parts of the framework. What's new here?; title: Generative topics. Case study: finding generativity in a history  unit. Key features of generative topics. Planning generative topics. Teaching with generative topics. Common questions about generative topics.; title: Understanding goals. Case study: creating unit and course understanding goals in an English class. Key features of understanding goals. Goals that do not emphasize understanding. Planning unit-long understanding goals. Planning overarching understanding goals. Teaching with understanding goals. Common questions about understanding goals.; title: Performances of understanding. Case study: developing performaces of understanding for a science unit. Key features of performances of understanding. Performances that do not necessarily show understanding. Planning performances of understanding. Teaching with performances of understanding. Common questions about performances of understanding; title: Ongoing assessment. Case study: embedding ongoing assessment in a geometry unit. Key features of ongoing assessment. Assessment that does not support understanding.  Planning ongoing assessment.  Teaching with ongoing assessment.  Common questions about ongoing assessment.; title: Tips and tools for plannining and teaching. Getting started. A planning process. Teaching with the framework.; title: Teaching for understanding and other educational practices. Comparing the framework to other teaching strategies.