Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching For Understanding

The nation's leading education experts present the best teaching strategies for powerful learning


Teaching: what works, what doesn't, and why? Within the fields of reading, math, and science, bestselling author Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues describe, in clear and practical terms, the best teaching methods for K-12 student understanding. Rich classroom stories show that students designing and working together on engaging projects are challenged to do more than just memorize facts. This invaluable resource offers innovative strategies to support student learning.

* Influential author. Linda Darling-Hammond is a nationally-recognized expert in education. She is currently involved in congressional briefings on improving NCLB.

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High-profile partner with large outreach to market. The George Lucas Educational Foundation is a major force in pushing education forward. Over 100,000 "change agents of education" subscribe to GLEF's magazine, Edutopia.

Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she serves as co-director of the School Redesign Network and the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity.?Among her nearly 300 publications are the award-winning books: The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, and Preparing Teachers for a Changing World.

Brigid Barron is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University.

P. David Pearson is Dean of the Graduate School of Education and a Professor in the area of Language and Literacy?at the University of California, Berkeley.

Alan Schoenfeld is the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Elizabeth Stage is the director of the Lawrence Hall of Science, the University of California, Berkeley's public science center.

Timothy Zimmerman is an academic researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science.

The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit foundation that gathers and disseminates?information on K-12 teaching and learning in the Digital Age. The foundation publishes stories of innovative teaching and learning through a variety of media — a magazine, e-newsletters, DVDs, books, and this Web site. They are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

FOREWORD.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS.


INTRODUCTION: TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR UNDERSTANDING. (Linda Darling-Hammond)


Chapter 1: HOW CAN WE TEACH FOR MEANINGFUL LEARNING? (Brigid Barron and Linda Darling-Hammond)


Chapter 2: READING FOR UNDERSTANDING. (P. David Pearson, Gina N. Cervetti, and Jennifer L. Tilson)


Chapter 3: MATHEMATICS FOR UNDERSTANDING. (Alan H. Schoenfeld)


Chapter 4: TEACHING SCIENCE FOR UNDERSTANDING. (Timothy D. Zimmerman and Elizabeth K. Stage)


Chapter 5: CONCLUSION: CREATING SCHOOLS THAT DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING. (Linda Darling-Hammond)





APPENDIX.



BIBLIOGRAPHY.


SUBJECT INDEX.


NAME INDEX.