Full Description
Empower students to reach new levels of thinking through teaching for deep understanding!
How do teachers successfully bridge the chasm between large numbers of very specific educational standards and deep understanding of important ideas? This well-researched text is based on the collaborative work between researchers and school practitioners to help answer this fundamental question.
The authors have drawn from the most up-to-date research to help teachers, curriculum developers, and school leaders discover how to implement and promote learner-centered, quality teaching strategies that encourage students' understanding. Organized into five parts, this text systematically uncovers how to:
Advance student learning using leading-edge research on powerful forms of instruction
Foster metacogniton in students and encourage them to take control of their own learning
Extend learning from academic thinking to real-world application across all disciplines
Learn how to instill a culture of deep understanding among students while still meeting specific achievement standards found in most district and state curricula
This timely and accessible resource reveals how rethinking school curriculum and teaching for deeper knowledge transfer can help students take control of their own learning.
Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part 1: The Significance and Meaning of "Deep Understanding"
1. Deep Understanding for All Students: The Overriding Goal for Schooling - Kenneth Leithwood, Pat McAdie, Nina Bascia, Anne Rodrigue, and Shawn Moore
2. Reflections on Depth - Carl Bereiter
3. The Starting Point: Constructivist Accounts of Learning - Clive Beck and Clare Kosnik
4. Understanding "Understanding": A Review of the Literature - Sandra Folk
Part 2: Teaching for Deep Understanding in the Disciplines
5. Mathematics - John Ross and Douglas E. McDougall
6. The Role of Literacy and Literature - David Booth
7. Imagine ... An Enlightening and Empowering Science and Technology Education - Larry Bencze
8. Understanding Technology - Carl Bereiter
9. Deepening Understanding and Competence in Social Studies Teaching - Mark Evans and Ian Hundey
10. Imagining Drama/Theatre and the Arts - Kathleen Gallagher
Part 3: Teaching for Deep Understanding Across the Curriculum
11. Multiliteracies Pedagogy and the Role of Identity Texts - Jim Cummins
12. Teaching Wisdom Through Deep Critical Thinking and Development of Character - Michel Ferrari
13. Technology for Understanding - Marlene Scardamalia
14. Knowledge Building in Elementary Science - Richard Messina and Richard Reeve
15. Classroom Assessment for Deep Understanding - Lorna Earl
Part 4: The Challenge of Teaching for Deep Understanding
16. What Teachers Think - Pat McAdie
Part 5: Enabling the Teaching of Deep Understanding
17. Conditions Which Influence Teaching for Understanding - Sandra Folk
18. The Importance of Partnerships to Support and Sustain Teaching for Deep Understanding - Nina Bascia, Anne Rodrigue, and Shawn Moore
19. Teaching for Depth in Teacher Education - Carol Rolheiser and Mark Evans
20. Summary and Recommendations - Kenneth Leithwood, Pat McAdie, Anne Rodrigue, Shawn Moore, and Nina Bascia
References
Index
