By: Allysen Lovstuen In the Iowa Core five Characteristics of Effective Instruction are identified.
According to documents on the Keystone AEA website some attributes of Teaching for Understanding are:
A few of the things that I use in my classroom in order to keep the focus on Teaching for Understanding are: High Quality Tasks: This is something that is talked about a lot in math education. Finding tasks that have multiple entry points, challenge students to think, and are in that sweet spot where students are able to acquire new knowledge. It is important that students are able to experience content in new and novel situations where they are building the connections. Don't Tell Too Much: This is my note to myself. In the past there have been times when I have sabotaged the learning by telling too much. I was buying into the fallacy that the teacher's job is to make the learning easy. Instead I need to focus on providing just enough help and information to keep the struggle productive without taking away the chance engage, struggle, and problem solve. What do you do in your classroom to keep the focus on Teaching for Understanding? Please share!
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Steve Peterson
3/20/2018 01:38:40 pm
I feel like Teaching for Understanding has been a goal of mine for a long time. I still have a lot to learn, though.
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Allysen Lovstuen
3/20/2018 01:51:05 pm
Yes! I love seeing how this stretches across content and level. I see your description of the transition to you-do, we-do, I-do as a useful framework to think through when planning lessons!
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Steve Peterson
3/21/2018 06:40:04 am
Would be fun to think about how we (as teachers or as a district) might move toward helping each other design learning for this kind of deeper understanding. Certainly the TLC begins some of these conversations...how to continue and nurture them next? Leave a Reply. |
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