1. Nazarena Cali

2. How might you increase your students’ understanding of what they learn? References: -Working with styles by Dr. Kathie F. Nunley in the website help4teachers.com/learningstyles.htm-How the adolescent brain challenges the adult brain? by Dr. Kathie F. Nunley in the website help4teachers.com/learningstyles.htm-Teaching for understanding: Educating students for performance by Ken Kickbusch in the websitewww.weac.org/resource/june96/under.htm-learnweb.harvard.edu/ALPS/tfu/about2cfm

3. What is understanding? A flexible performance capability Knowing Understanding Learning for understanding Learning styles varied activities in class challenge vs comfort

4. Teaching for Understanding Generative topics Understanding goals Understanding performances Ongoing assessment

5. Students are actively involved in the process –they make sense and construct meaning- that has value in their lives beyond the school Students do Students understand develop and integrate a network of associations, linking new input to preexisting knowledge and beliefs