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Teaching for Deep Understanding

What Every Educator Should Know

By: Kenneth Leithwood, Pat McAdie, Nina Bascia, Anne Rodrigue

Empower students to reach new levels of thinking through teaching for deep understanding!

This timely and accessible resource reveals how rethinking school curriculum and teaching for deep understanding can help students take control of their own learning. Organized into five parts, this text systematically uncovers how to:

Advance student learning with research on powerful forms of instruction
Foster metacogniton in students and encourage them to take control of their own learning
Extend learning from academic thinking to real-world application
Learn how to instill a culture of deep understanding among students while still meeting specific achievement standards

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412926966
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 216
Publication date: March 29, 2014

Price: $42.95

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Empower students to reach new levels of thinking through teaching for deep understanding!

How do teachers successfully bridge the chasm between large numbers of very specific educational standards and deep understanding of important ideas? This well-researched text is based on the collaborative work between researchers and school practitioners to help answer this fundamental question.

The authors have drawn from the most up-to-date research to help teachers, curriculum developers, and school leaders discover how to implement and promote learner-centered, quality teaching strategies that encourage students' understanding. Organized into five parts, this text systematically uncovers how to:

Advance student learning using leading-edge research on powerful forms of instruction
Foster metacogniton in students and encourage them to take control of their own learning
Extend learning from academic thinking to real-world application across all disciplines
Learn how to instill a culture of deep understanding among students while still meeting specific achievement standards found in most district and state curricula

This timely and accessible resource reveals how rethinking school curriculum and teaching for deeper knowledge transfer can help students take control of their own learning.

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- up-to-date research and quality strategies from school leaders and teachers

- ways to balance standards with inviting critical thinking and deeper understanding from students

- a systemic approach to implementing teaching for deeper understanding

Author(s)

Kenneth Leithwood

Dr. Leithwood is Emeritus Professor at OISE/University of Toronto. His research and writing is about school leadership, educational policy and organizational change. He has published extensively on these topics. For example, he is the senior editor of both the first and second International Handbooks on Educational Leadership and Administration (Kluwer Publishers, 1996, 2003). His most recent books include How School Leaders Contribute to Student Success (2017, Springer), Linking Leadership to Student Learning (2012, Jossey Bass), Leading School Turnaround (2010, Jossey Bass), Distributed leadership: The state of the evidence (2009, Routledge), Leading with Teachers’ Emotions in Mind (2008, Corwin), Making Schools Smarter (Corwin, 3^rd edition, 2006) and Teaching for Deep Understanding (Corwin, 2006). Among his awards, Professor Leithwood is the inaugural recipient of the University of Toronto’s Impact on Public Policy award, AERA (Division A) 2011 Outstanding Leadership Researcher Award, the 2012 Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award from the University Council for Educational Administration and the Ontario Principal Councils’ Outstanding Contributions to Education Award for 2016. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. With colleagues, he has completed one of the largest studies of its kind about how state, district and school-level leadership influences student learning.

About the Contributors

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part 1: The Significance and Meaning of “Deep Understanding”

1. Deep Understanding for All Students: The Overriding Goal for Schooling

2. Reflections on Depth

3. The Starting Point: Constructivist Accounts of Learning

4. Understanding "Understanding": A Review of the Literature

Part 2: Teaching for Deep Understanding in the Disciplines

5. Mathematics

6. The Role of Literacy and Literature

7. Imagine … An Enlightening and Empowering Science and Technology Education

8. Understanding Technology

9. Deepening Understanding and Competence in Social Studies Teaching

10. Imagining Drama/Theatre and the Arts

Part 3: Teaching for Deep Understanding Across the Curriculum

11. Multiliteracies Pedagogy and the Role of Identity Texts

12. Teaching Wisdom Through Deep Critical Thinking and Development of Character

13. Technology for Understanding

14. Knowledge Building in Elementary Science

15. Classroom Assessment for Deep Understanding

Part 4: The Challenge of Teaching for Deep Understanding

16. What Teachers Think

Part 5: Enabling the Teaching of Deep Understanding

17. Conditions Which Influence Teaching for Understanding

18. The Importance of Partnerships to Support and Sustain Teaching for Deep Understanding

19. Teaching for Depth in Teacher Education

20. Summary and Recommendations

References

Index

Reviews

"Clearly communicates that for substantive improvements like teaching for understanding to be implemented successfully, it is necessary to involve the stakeholders."

Eliot W. Larson, Principal
Fugett Middle School, West Chester, PA

"A refreshing reminder of the true nature of learning, providing a theoretical foundation, practical applications, and action strategies for promoting deeper understandings in our classrooms."

William Ferriter, NBCT Teacher of the Year
Teacher Leaders Network

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Hands-on, Practical Guidance for Educators

Teaching for Deep Understanding

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Author(s)

Kenneth Leithwood

Pat McAdie

Nina Bascia

Anne Rodrigue

Table of Contents

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