Teaching for Deep Understanding What Every Educator Should Know [Paperback]

This well-researched resource draws on the collaborative work between researchers and school practitioners to offer teaching strategies that promote deep understanding and higher-order thinking in students.This well-researched resource draws on the collaborative work between researchers and school practitioners to offer teaching strategies that promote deep understanding and higher-order thinking in students.

Clearly communicates that for substantive improvements like teaching for understanding to be implemented successfully, it is necessary to involve the stakeholders.

A refreshing reminder of the true nature of learning, providing a theoretical foundation, practical applications, and action strategies for promoting deeper understandings in our classrooms.

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 - KathllƒÁ