Teaching for Understanding Across the Primary Curriculum

✍ Scribed by Lynn D. Newton

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 97
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book discusses the complex nature of understanding and what it means to teach for understanding. The processes and strategies that can support teaching for understanding are then exemplified in the context of different areas of the primary / elementary (4-11 years) school curriculum.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Editorial: Teaching for Understanding Across the Primary Curriculum......Page 8
Helping Children to Understand......Page 10
Whatever Happened to Primary English Knowledge and Understanding?......Page 19
Teaching for Understanding in Primary Mathematics......Page 27
Teaching for Understanding in Primary Science......Page 34
Developing Young Children’s Understanding: An Example from Earth Science......Page 45
ICT and Teaching for Understanding......Page 55
Teaching for Understanding in Primary Geography......Page 63
Encouraging Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom......Page 73
Expression in the Visual Arts......Page 80
Teaching for Understanding: Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage......Page 88
Notes on Contributors......Page 96

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