The Teaching for Understanding Guide
The Teaching for Understanding Guide by Tina Blythe is a comprehensive resource published by Jossey-Bass on November 2, 1999. This first edition spans 144 pages and is presented in English. The book serves as a handbook for educators, focusing on the essential challenge of fostering deep and resourceful thinking in students while guiding them to apply their intellectual capabilities constructively.
Readers will find a structured approach to the “teaching for understanding” process, complete with classroom examples, practical tips, and worksheets designed to clarify this methodology. The guide emphasizes selecting engaging topics, establishing coherent unit and course goals, and creating dynamic learning activities. Additionally, it addresses the importance of continual feedback in enhancing student performance, making it a valuable tool for teachers aiming to improve their instructional practices.
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“This handbook will both encourage and assist those teachers whotake on the important challenge of helping their students to thinkdeeply and resourcefully and to use that intellectual powerconstructively.”
–Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools
Walks teachers through the “teaching for understanding” process.The authors offer classroom examples, practical tips, andworksheets to help clarify the process. They also show how toselect engaging and appropriate topics, set coherent unit andcourse goals, create dynamic learning activities, improve studentperformance through continual feedback, and more.
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