Powerful Learning

In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both within the classroom walls and beyond. The book includes rich stories, as well as online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, that show how students who are taught well are able to think critically, employ flexible problem-solving, and apply learned skills and knowledge to new situations.

FOREWORD v ABOUT THE AUTHORS ix INTRODUCTION: TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR UNDERSTANDING 1 Linda Darling-Hammond 1 HOW CAN WE TEACH FOR MEANINGFUL LEARNING? 11 Brigid Barron and Linda Darling-Hammond 2 READING FOR UNDERSTANDING 71 P. David Pearson, Gina N. Cervetti, and Jennifer L. Tilson 3 MATHEMATICS FOR UNDERSTANDING 113 Alan H. Schoenfeld 4 TEACHING SCIENCE FOR UNDERSTANDING 151 Timothy D. Zimmerman and Elizabeth K. Stage 5 CONCLUSION: CREATING SCHOOLS THAT DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING 193 Linda Darling-Hammond APPENDIX 213 BIBLIOGRAPHY 225 SUBJECT INDEX 257 NAME INDEX 267