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Post by Maurita Aubrey on Jan 7, 2011 0:38:13 GMT -5
What are the roles of concepts and enduring understandings in the development of students’ deep understanding?
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Post by Newell Fonda on Feb 15, 2011 9:47:14 GMT -5
A student needs to think conceptually in order to have a deeper understanding. It's easier for students to see patterns and make connections when they learn conceptually. Conceptual learning also gives relevance to learned facts and topics, which hopefully leads to a deeper understanding.
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Post by Sioux Central DLT on Feb 15, 2011 17:27:22 GMT -5
Deep understanding requires students to go beyond the subject area and grasp concepts and enduring understandings. Concept learning will allow the students to be actively engaged and make connections to their own life.
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Post by northsentralkoss on Feb 22, 2011 11:17:19 GMT -5
Conceptual learning engages students to think deeper, form opinions of their own, and develops their deep understanding. The role is to move students beyond regurgatating facts to analyzing, synthesizing, etc...
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Post by mansonnorthwestweb on Mar 8, 2011 16:43:52 GMT -5
The goal of teaching enduring understandings is for students to be able to determine and express what they really understand as a result of their learning. They are “big ideas’ and should promote deep thinking. As a result, students should be able to see patterns and make connections when they come across new information. In order for students to arrive at enduring understandings students must build connections and find relationships amongst new information and past information. The sequence of getting to Enduring Understanding give a good overview: facts -> topics -> concepts -> enduring understandings. This video series really helped show how everything fits together.
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Post by twinrivers2 on Mar 13, 2011 12:24:02 GMT -5
Response to Video #3: Question #1 - Enduring understandings extends learning allowing multiple student opinions to be shared which provides the shaping of the deeper student thinking and students reach the analyzing and synthesizing stage of higher order thinking.
Question #2 - The curriculum actually becomes more exciting and intriguing for all students b/c the concept based curriculum differentiates allowing all students to think and frame ideas at a much deeper level.
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Post by PACPP DLT on Mar 13, 2011 20:37:01 GMT -5
By understanding the relationship between multiple concepts, students must think deeper. It helps engage students and encourages them to relate concepts to their own lives. Deep understanding requires students to look at concepts with a critical eye in order to develop their own opinions, something we hope they will continue to do throughout their lives.
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Post by jjoynt/Emmetsburg on Mar 17, 2011 9:19:37 GMT -5
The first step is moving from factual to conceptual thinking; therefore deeper thinking happens which develops a deeper understanding. Students are able to go into the world with an ability to think. We have the thought that the enduring understandings will be the end of course assessments and living life – get a job, function in the competitive world.
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Post by David Ross on Mar 17, 2011 14:36:56 GMT -5
Rigor and Relevance - Engaging in student conversation a lot more than just teaching facts, conceptual learning is higher level thinking, more rigorous for student, can be made relevant and students can put more of their world and examples into it Student Centered - not teaching facts puts more ownership on students to do the learning. It gets students to think about the topic. They are then able to put their own ideas into practice with research and data.
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Post by Albert City Truesdale on Mar 24, 2011 16:44:17 GMT -5
Roles: *Makes them thinking students by digging for their understandings---deeper thinking. (*Always use present tense verbs when writing the concept.)
Student achievement is increased by getting them to question at higher levels of thinking (deeper thinking)
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Post by escjmeyer on Apr 5, 2011 20:48:14 GMT -5
Thinking!! You can't have deep understanding without challenging the students to think. The concepts and enduring understandings will force them to think. And hopefully after being led through the process it will open their minds to new possibilities.
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Post by fortdodge on Apr 18, 2011 17:00:49 GMT -5
Enduring understanding provides a framework for assessing the concepts that are tied together.
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