Teaching for Deep Understanding : What Every Educator Should Know.

Cover -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - The Significance and Meaning of "Deep Understanding" -- Chapter 1 - Deep Understanding for all Students: The Overriding Goal for Schooling -- Chapter 2 - Reflections on Depth -- Chapter 3 - The Starting Point: Constructivist Accounts of Learning -- Chapter 4 - Understanding Understanding: A Review of the Literature -- Part II - Teaching for Deep Understanding in the Disciplines -- Chapter 5 - Mathematics -- Chapter 6 - The Role of Literacy and Literature -- Chapter 7 - Imagine . . . An Enlightening and Empowering Science and Technology Education -- Chapter 8 - Understanding Technology -- Chapter 9 - Deepening Understanding and Competence in Social Studies Teaching -- Chapter 10 - Imagining Drama/Theater and the Arts -- Part III - Teaching for Deep Understanding across the Curriculum -- Chapter 11 - Multiliteracies Pedagogy and the Role of Identity Texts -- Chapter 12 - Teaching Wisdom through Deep Critical Thinking and Development of Character -- Chapter 13 - Technology for Understanding -- Chapter 14 - Knowledge Building in Elementary Science -- Chapter 15 - Classroom Assessment for Deep Understanding -- Part IV - The Challenge of Teaching for Deep Understanding -- Chapter 16 - What Teachers Think -- Part V - Enabling the Teaching of Deep Understanding -- Chapter 17 - Conditions That Influence Teaching for Understanding -- Chapter 18 - The Importance of Partnerships to Support and Sustain Teaching for Deep Understanding -- Chapter 19 - Teaching for Depth in Teacher Education -- Chapter 20 - Summary and Recommendations -- References -- Index.

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.

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