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

Stern, a teacher trainer and instructional coach, et al. show secondary teachers how to build a Concept-Based Curriculum, to help students transform their knowledge to new situations and apply it in innovative ways. After a review of H. Lynn Erickson and Lois A. Lanning's work on Concept-Based Curriculum, they outline strategies to reorient students on how to monitor and improve their thinking, strategies for introducing concepts in the disciplines and guiding students toward their own formulation of conceptual relationships, ideas for designing lessons, principles and related strategies for designing formative assessments for conceptual understanding and differentiation, and the relationship between Concept-Based Curriculum and other initiatives and priorities, such as cooperative learning, technology, the Common Core State Standards, International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, and SAT. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Students become experts and innovators through Concept-Based teachingInnovators 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