Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary: Designing Lessons and Assessments for Deep Learning

By Krista Fantin Ferraro, Julie Harris Stern, Juliet Mohnkern, et al.

Students become experts and innovators through Concept-Based teaching

Innovators don't invent without understanding how the world works. With this foundation, they apply conceptual understanding to solve problems. We want students to not only retain ideas, but relate them to other things they encounter, using each new situation to add nuance and sophistication to their thinking. Discover how to help learners uncover conceptual relationships and transfer them to new situations. Teachers will learn:

Strategies for introducing conceptual learning to students Four lesson frameworks to help students uncover conceptual relationships
How to assess conceptual understanding, and How to differentiate concept-based instruction

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506355706
• ISBN13: 9781506355702
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"