Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding - Softcover

Darling-Hammond, Linda; Barron, Brigid; Pearson, P. David; Schoenfeld, Alan H.; Stage, Elizabeth K.; Zimmerman, Timothy D.; Cervetti, Gina N.; Tilson, Jennifer L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470276673 ISBN 13: 9780470276679

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2008

Synopsis

In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both within the classroom walls and beyond. The book includes rich stories, as well as online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, that show how students who are taught well are able to think critically, employ flexible problem-solving, and apply learned skills and knowledge to new situations.

 

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From the Back Cover

POWERFUL LEARNING

Powerful Learning is a comprehensive and engaging record of the most effective K–12 teaching practices―including project-based learning, cooperative learning, performance-based assessment, as well as instructional strategies in literacy, mathematics, and science. The authors explore the ways in which these models generate meaningful student understanding through rich classroom stories and correlating online videos of innovative teaching (located at www.edutopia.org). This book offers insights into how educators can enable students to think critically, transfer skills and knowledge, and be flexible problem solvers...both inside and outside the classroom walls.

PRAISE FOR POWERFUL LEARNING

"Powerful Learning is a great compendium of approaches to teaching that can generate real learning. It reviews the relevant research base, offers practical examples of the research in use, and focuses on long-term goals―and how various teaching and learning activities support these goals."
―CATHERINE SNOW, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"This outstanding book is a 'must read'― the authors make so many crystal clear and helpful arguments for the need to teach for understanding."
―JOHN BRANSFORD, James W. Mifflin University Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle

"We are extraordinarily lucky to have this highly readable book that helps us make 'powerful learning' not just a slogan, but a reality. "
―DEBORAH MEIER, senior scholar and adjunct professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470276673
• ISBN 13: 9780470276679
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288