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Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making
Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. In Teaching for Deeper Learning , renowned educators and best-selling authors Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a teaching students to make meaning for themselves.
Contending that the ability to "earn" understanding will equip students to thrive in school, at work, and in life, the authors highlight seven higher-order thinking skills that facilitate students' acquisition of information for greater retention, retrieval, and transfer. These skills, which cut across content areas and grade levels and are deeply embedded in current academic standards, separate high achievers from their low-performing peers.
Drawing on their deep well of research and experience, the authors
- Explore what kind of content is worth having students make meaning about.
- Provide practical tools and strategies to help teachers target each of the seven thinking skills in the classroom.
- Explain how teachers can incorporate the thinking skills and tools into lesson and unit design.
- Show how teachers can build students' capacity to use the strategies independently.
If our goal is to prepare students to meet the rigorous demands of school, college, and career, then we must foster their ability to respond to such challenges. This comprehensive, practical guide will enable teachers to engage students in the kind of learning that yields enduring understanding and valuable skills that they can use throughout their lives.
Contending that the ability to "earn" understanding will equip students to thrive in school, at work, and in life, the authors highlight seven higher-order thinking skills that facilitate students' acquisition of information for greater retention, retrieval, and transfer. These skills, which cut across content areas and grade levels and are deeply embedded in current academic standards, separate high achievers from their low-performing peers.
Drawing on their deep well of research and experience, the authors
- Explore what kind of content is worth having students make meaning about.
- Provide practical tools and strategies to help teachers target each of the seven thinking skills in the classroom.
- Explain how teachers can incorporate the thinking skills and tools into lesson and unit design.
- Show how teachers can build students' capacity to use the strategies independently.
If our goal is to prepare students to meet the rigorous demands of school, college, and career, then we must foster their ability to respond to such challenges. This comprehensive, practical guide will enable teachers to engage students in the kind of learning that yields enduring understanding and valuable skills that they can use throughout their lives.
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November 29, 2023
Pretty decent for a pd book study. Easy to implement strategies.
April 22, 2020
Using this a school PLC. Lots of great information, tools and strategies. Matrix and Mapping especially helpful for me.
November 3, 2021
I have been trained in Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe and believe it's the best way to plan units and lessons that are worth teaching. At one time school was about memorizing facts at a superficial level. That should not be education's focus anymore. We need to help learners make deeper connections to their learning so they will be prepared for deeper challenges. Learners need to make meaning out of what they learn and not merely memorize; that is how true learning takes place. It's not about what we know but about what we can do with what we know (and this goes far beyond memorizing information so we can pass a test and then quickly forget that information).
The authors offer us 8 strategies/tools that we can use with our learners to engage them as they make meaning. 1. Frame Learning Around Big Ideas, 2. Conceptualize, 3. Summarize and Notate, 4. Compare, 5. Read to Understand, 6. Predict and Hypothesize, 7. Visual and Use Graphic Representation, and 8. Empathize and Use Perspective. I love how the authors focus on the what, the why, and the how for each strategy; this structure is effective and clearly explains how to use the strategy. With plenty of tables, examples, and graphics teachers can implement these ideas immediately.
This book is easy to read, to follow, and to implement. I really like this book and think it's exactly what we need right now. I would love to see a group of faculty read this book together, implement the strategies, and support one another in the process.
The authors offer us 8 strategies/tools that we can use with our learners to engage them as they make meaning. 1. Frame Learning Around Big Ideas, 2. Conceptualize, 3. Summarize and Notate, 4. Compare, 5. Read to Understand, 6. Predict and Hypothesize, 7. Visual and Use Graphic Representation, and 8. Empathize and Use Perspective. I love how the authors focus on the what, the why, and the how for each strategy; this structure is effective and clearly explains how to use the strategy. With plenty of tables, examples, and graphics teachers can implement these ideas immediately.
This book is easy to read, to follow, and to implement. I really like this book and think it's exactly what we need right now. I would love to see a group of faculty read this book together, implement the strategies, and support one another in the process.
November 27, 2020
The authors present seven strategies to deepen student understanding of curriculum which several specific tools that can be applied immediately. Practical and user friendly. This increase the tool bag of every teacher, new or veteran!
June 13, 2020
Practical suggestions for organizing content around big ideas, and a number of research-based strategies and tools to promote student engagement and thinking. I’m looking forward to trying out a few new strategies and tools!
November 11, 2020
Definitely a must for any first year teacher or experienced teacher wanted to try some new teaching strategies in their classroom to engage their students.
June 30, 2021
A very practical book that helps teachers translate a well-articulated curriculum into instructional design that scaffolds many thinking skills (note-making, perspective-taking, visualizing, comparing,etc) that too often we assume students know how to do well. The last chapter on how to map a coherent course-long curriculum in which students learn to think more deeply in a discipline is especially valuable. Additionally, I will use several of the instructional strategies in my own classes.
August 16, 2023
There are a lot of great tools in here to help students with conceptual understanding. Some tools are more complicated than others, but I like that there’s a menu of tools for each type of understating. I think this is a good book for teachers of any content.
July 22, 2021
Really good ideas for any content area
February 2, 2024
Very useful and doable strategies.
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