Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching For Understand

Description:
In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K-2 student understanding, and occur both within the classroom walls and beyond. The book includes rich stories, as well as online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, that show how students who are taught well are able to think critically, employ flexible problem-solving, and apply learned skills and knowledge to new situations.

Table of Contents:
FOREWORD. ABOUT THE AUTHORS. INTRODUCTION: TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR UNDERSTANDING. (Linda Darling-Hammond) Chapter 1: HOW CAN WE TEACH FOR MEANINGFUL LEARNING? (Brigid Barron and Linda Darling-Hammond) Chapter 2: READING FOR UNDERSTANDING. (P. David Pearson, Gina N. Cervetti, and Jennifer L. Tilson) Chapter 3: MATHEMATICS FOR UNDERSTANDING. (Alan H. Schoenfeld) Chapter 4: TEACHING SCIENCE FOR UNDERSTANDING. (Timothy D. Zimmerman and Elizabeth K. Stage) Chapter 5: CONCLUSION: CREATING SCHOOLS THAT DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING. (Linda Darling-Hammond) APPENDIX. BIBLIOGRAPHY. SUBJECT INDEX. NAME INDEX.