Showing results for "Deeper Learning" in Education & Learning

Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. In Teaching for Deeper Learning, renowned educators and best-selling authors, Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a solution: teaching students to make meaning for themselves.

What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms - places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at 30 different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule.

When I started focusing on teaching people English, I spent a lot of time researching what made some people appear to be better language learners than others. You know what I mean right? Some people seem to pick up languages much easier than others. Not me, I have to work HARD. So, if I am going to help people to truly master using English, shouldn’t I know what tricks/tips are needed to make the journey easier? I set out to find out. I asked the people I admired. The people I felt had truly embraced the language learning journey and had seen the career benefits from doing it. I wanted to ...