Teaching for understanding
The Iowa DE's Characteristics of Effective Instruction page includes descriptions of what Teaching for Understanding looks like at different levels of education and several rich tasks for high school classrooms.
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Day 4 PowerPoint presentation. What does it mean to teach for understanding?
The Teaching for Understanding brief describes different attributes of this Characteristic of Effective Instruction.
Teaching for understanding is the lynch pin in all classrooms - it provides purpose for the use of rich tasks and strategies to induce productive group work, the standards for mathematical practice, essential questions, student centered classrooms, and more. |