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Reading Material - Teaching for Understanding

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Reading Material - Teaching for Understanding

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I remember when I was teaching years ago at an English center, I was teaching students based through a book and a set of rules. So, during a lesson about advertisement, I gave the students a project to create their own ad. I brought them to a mall and they took pictures of either clothing or tech and used them in their ads. This helped bring the terms, grammar, and idea of why language is important better than they would have if we stuck to the book because they used and saw a real life applications.

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moment of conceptual understanding happen in my lesson in MYP grade 9 today. i give them question " what would you do if you are the artist?" as a way to construct their mindset. they learn how to deconstruct song that i gave to them, and try to rearrange it through the understanding, even though im still giving hints on how to do the task

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When I first learned about the bar model in math, I honestly didn’t understand it—especially because I grew up in a regular village school where it wasn’t explained to us. But after I started teaching in a Cambridge school, I realized that learning math using the bar model is very helpful. It makes concepts clearer, helps us solve problems step-by-step, and really sharpens our logical thinking. And now, in the IB school, I have also learned from my colleagues and students how to use reflection as part of our learning, which has helped me personally to reflect on everything I do and keep improving.

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Its about dividing the football field which is 11v11 into smaller field. The instructor just use division, very simple and applicable when I need to make smaller field with smaller number of players.

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I enjoy teaching the UOI when it focuses on health and well-being. I need to learn first and gain beneficial knowledge from the experienced teachers or leaders about the topic, to help me grasp the concept of health and furthermore help my students to know and understand the topic. My students thought that being healthy means only not being sick, and they are not familiar with other aspects of health. After we discussed in class, they now know and understand various aspects of health.

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Claim:
Understanding means being able to explain, apply, and see things from different points of view.

Support:
The six facets show that real understanding includes skills like explaining in your own words, applying to new situations, and showing empathy.

Question:
How can I help my students show empathy in math and science lesson?

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Claim

1. Information is everywhere and easily to get, so many exposure about many things.

2. Education not learn about what inside but more than that it must help the students understand the fact and process what they know become something useful and can support their life .

Support

1. information is too easily accessible with the touch of a screen.

2. Rather, education today must help students go beyond learning facts in order to

develop deeper understandings of the world

around them and the diverse global society

in which they live. The learning principles cited above support the idea that learners are more likely to appreciate and remember specific facts

and skills when these are connected to conceptually larger ideas used in authentic

and meaningful ways.

Question

How to build the students mindset willing to think deeper so we can make them understand not only know? Wants to answer the questions especially on "Why and How"?

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statement : understanding is something that the students has to "earn" and not given for them

support : based on the material, it is said that there are 6 steps that students need to achieve in order for them to be understand, which is : explain, interpret, apply, demonstrate perspective, displaying empathy, and have self-knowledge. and all of these steps are not something that teacher can spoon feed the students, they need to earn by doing.

question : how and when we as teacher need to find the urgency for students to find understanding in every lesson that they learn?

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The Claim: To teach for understanding is better than to teach for knowledge.

Support: "...the knowledge base in many fields continues to expand, and most teachers today find that there is too much content to teach and not enough time to teach it all! The present curriculum simply contains too many topics and is often fragmented, without clear connections from one topic or one level to the next." shows that knowledge alone is not going to help in the current century.

Question: While understanding is important and a good thing to focus on, wouldn't knowledge be essential to give a student a way to understand?

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The concept of understanding can be connected and transfer to other area of our life

support:

" Understanding core ideas and the ability to transfer them to new situations should be the twin goals of education today."

question:

why can we know without understanding?

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Claim:

Teaching concepts or understanding rather than only learning facts is important.

The teacher facilitates students to create meanings using their own words and develop skills while they are creating the meaning.

Support:

To prepare students for the 21st century, we have to help students go beyond learning facts to develop deeper understandings of the world around them and the diverse global society in which they live.

Our children need to learn how to find, sort, evaluate, and apply information to new situations. They need to learn how to ask critical questions and solve difficult and messy problems. They need to develop a deeper understanding of key concepts and processes that will help them flourish in an unpredictable world.

Question:

How do we engage students who are reluctant to discuss or share their opinions in concept-building moments?

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Claim: teaching not only for finishing material/only read, but should be based on understanding ideas and how to apply in their own life.

Support: contemporary education must shift from an emphasis on knowledge acquisition for its own sake to preparing learners to understand ideas and processes that they can use and apply flexibility and autonomously.

Question: how to give connection of some knowledge into the students daily life?