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Powerful Learning : What We Know About Teaching for Understanding

by Linda Darling-Hammond
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Teaching for understanding - Enhance your effectiveness!

Powerful Learning is a must-read for educators who aspire to enhance their ability to generate meaningful student understanding. The book offers comprehensive practical reviews of effective classroom techniques, coupled with rich stories and online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, to show how students can think critically, apply learned skills and knowledge, and solve complex problems. By providing evidence-based teaching strategies that have been successfully implemented across diverse settings, the authors have created a tool that any diligent teacher would find useful.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Powerful Learning : What We Know About Teaching for Understanding

by Linda Darling-Hammond
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ISBN: 9780470276679
Authors: Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Date of Publication: 2008-06-16
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 35 readers)

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.
 

Teaching for understanding - Enhance your effectiveness!

Powerful Learning is a must-read for educators who aspire to enhance their ability to generate meaningful student understanding. The book offers comprehensive practical reviews of effective classroom techniques, coupled with rich stories and online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, to show how students can think critically, apply learned skills and knowledge, and solve complex problems. By providing evidence-based teaching strategies that have been successfully implemented across diverse settings, the authors have created a tool that any diligent teacher would find useful.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.