UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN FRAMEWORK BY JAY …
5. Teachers are coaches of understanding, not mere purveyors of content knowl-edge, skill, or activity. They focus on ensuring that learning happens, not just teaching (and assuming that what was taught was learned); they always aim and check for successful meaning making and transfer by the learner. 1703 North Beauregard Street
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ascd.org—John Dewey, “Individual Psychology and Education,” The Philosopher, 12, 1934 1934 1948 —The ASCD Committee on Platform of Beliefs, Educational Leadership, January 1957 1957 “[The purpose of education] has changed from that of producing a literate society to that of producing a learning society.”
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