Powerful Learning
Powerful Learning : What We Know About Teaching for Understanding
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.
- Format: Paperback | 288 pages
- Dimensions: 189 x 234 x 16mm | 544g
- Publication date: 18 Jul 2008
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication City/Country: New York, United States
- Language: English
- Illustrations note: Illustrations
- ISBN10: 0470276673
- ISBN13: 9780470276679
- Bestsellers rank: 406,819