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Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding

Authors: Darling-hammond, Brigid Barron, P. David Pearson, Alan H. Schoenfeld, Elizabeth K., Stage, Timothy D. Zimmerman, Gina N. Cervetti, Jennifer L. Tilson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 152084

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.9

ISBN: 0470276673
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.102
EAN: 9780470276679
ASIN: 0470276673

Publication Date: July 8, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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, andapply learned skills and knowledgeto new situations.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

Darling Hammond does it again July 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Written in a teacher-friendly style, this book combines research and practice to produce ideas about powerful learning that contradict the movement across the country to teaching mindless, fragmented, and conceptually weak curriculum to children and youth, especially children of the poor and English learners. This is good reading that offers hope for teachers. I am a bit concerned that it doesn't deal much with issues of racism and class, or that it doesn't include critical approaches to teaching, but it does offer ideas about inquiry teaching across content areas that are refreshing.