{"product_id":"teaching-for-understanding-linking-research-with-practice-hardback-9780787910020","title":"Teaching for Understanding; Linking Research with Practice (Hardback) 9780787910020","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTeaching for Understanding\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLinking Research with Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartha Stone Wiske (Edited by), MS Wiske (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780787910020, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book is equal parts theory and practice. It is a superb example of what educators in universities and schools can accomplish when they engage in sincere efforts to benefit students.\" --Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A remarkable work, conceptually bold and practical. It makes the best of contemporary practices seem eminently reasonable, while also offering a framework for making teaching for understanding accessible to our teachers.\" --Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas and founder, Central Park East Public Schools, East Harlem, New York\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"At last, a new volume from a team of scholars at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Project Zero that takes teaching, learning, and understanding, as both theory and practice. My congratulations to Howard Gardner, David Perkins, and Vito Perrone for a project well-conceived and well-conducted, and to Stone Wiske for a useful, educator-friendly book.\" --Lee S. Shulman, president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"As the authors acknowledge, teaching for understanding is an old idea and a simple one. But their lucid and thorough exploration of it is fresh and richly generative--and compelling too, in a way reserved for ideas that seem as practical as they are provocative. A whole range of people who care about teaching will be drawn to this book, and they will be well served.\" --Joe McDonald, director of research, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book presents an innovative approach to teaching that helps students acquire and use knowledge in ways that go beyond rote memorization of facts and figures--to develop a level of understanding that will serve them well throughout their lives. Based on a six-year collaborative research project of school teachers and researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the book describes what teaching for understanding looks like in the classroom, and examines how teachers have learned to use it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part One: Foundations of Teaching for Understanding\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. Why Do We Need a Pedagogy of Understanding?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vito Perrone\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. What is Understanding?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e David Perkins\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Teaching for Understanding in the Classroom\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. What is Teaching for Understanding?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Martha Stone Wiske\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. How Do Teachers Learn to Teach for Understanding?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Martha Stone Wiske, Karen Hammerness, Daniel Gray Wilson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. How Does Teaching for Understanding Look in Practice?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ron Ritchart, Martha Stone Wiske, Eric Buchovecky, Lois Hetland\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Students' Understanding in the Classroom\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. What Are the Qualities of Understanding?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Veronica Boix Mansilla, Howard Gardner\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. How Do Students Demonstrate Understanding?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lois Hetland, Karen Hammerness, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8. What Do Students in Teaching for Understanding Classrooms Understand?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Karen Hammerness, Rosario Jaramillo, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9. What Do Students Think About Understanding?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chris Unger and Daniel Gray Wilson with Rosario Jaramillo and Roger Dempsey\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Four: Promoting Teaching for Understanding\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10. How Can We Prepare New Teachers?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vito Perrone\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 11. How Can Teaching for Understanding Be ExtAnded in Schools?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Martha Stone Wiske, Lois Hetland, Eric Buchovecky\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Melding Progressive and Traditional Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Howard Gardner\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Martha Stone Wiske is a lecturer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she co-directs the Educational Techono\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart One: Foundations of Teaching for Understanding.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. Why Do We Need a Pedagogy of Understanding?(Vito Perrone).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. What is Understanding?(David Perkins).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Teaching for Understanding in the Classroom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. What is Teaching for Understanding?(Martha Stone Wiske).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. How Do Teachers Learn to Teach for Understanding?(Martha Stone Wiske, Karen Hammerness, Daniel Gray Wilson).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. How Does Teaching for Understanding Look in Practice?(Ron Ritchart, Martha Stone Wiske, Eric Buchovecky, Lois Hetland).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Students' Understanding in the Classroom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. What Are the Qualities of Understanding?(Veronica Boix Mansilla, Howard Gardner).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. How Do Students Demonstrate Understanding?(Lois Hetland, Karen Hammerness, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8. What Do Students in Teaching for Understanding Classrooms Understand?(Karen Hammerness, Rosario Jaramillo, Chris Unger, Daniel Gray Wilson).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9. What Do Students Think About Understanding?(Chris Unger and Daniel Gray Wilson with Rosario Jaramillo and Roger Dempsey).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Four: Promoting Teaching for Understanding.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10. How Can We Prepare New Teachers?(Vito Perrone).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 11. 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