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Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making

Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making

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General EducationTeaching Instruction

Publisher Price: $30.95

ISBN10: 1416628622
ISBN13: 9781416628620
Publisher: Assn For Supervision & Curricu
Published: Jan 22 2020
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.80 Depth: 9.80
Language: English

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 solution: 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.

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