TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blythe,Tina
ED  - Teaching for Understanding Project.
TI  - The teaching for understanding guide
SN  - 0787909939 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - LB1025.3 .B619 1998
U1  - 371.102 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - San Francisco, Calif.
PB  - Jossey-Bass Publishers
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Comprehension
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Learning
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
N1  - Companion guide to: Teaching for understanding / Martha Stone Wiske, editor. 1998; 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 -- Understanding understanding. The difficulty of teaching for understanding. What is understanding? How do students learn for understanding? -- The teaching for understanding framework. The four parts of the framework. What's new here? -- 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. -- 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. -- 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 -- 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. -- Tips and tools for plannining and teaching. Getting started. A planning process. Teaching with the framework. -- Teaching for understanding and other educational practices. Comparing the framework to other teaching strategies
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley042/97033735.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley034/97033735.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix06/97033735.html
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