The Teaching for Understanding Guide

"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.

1. What This Guide Is (and Isn't). 2. Understanding Understanding. 3. The Teaching for Understanding Framework. 4. Generative Topics. 5. Understanding Goals. 6. Performances of Understanding. 7. Ongoing Assessment. 8. Tips and Tools for Planning and Teaching. 9. Teaching for Understanding and Other Educational Practices.