Vocabulary
True or False
When we understand we can....
What is it? (examples)
Miscellaneous
100
Narratives and translations that provide meaning.
What is interpretation
100
The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the verb understand means "to apprehend the meaning or import" of an idea.
What is true
100
See and hear points of view through critical eyes and ears; see the big picture
What is having perspective
100
A college freshman shows how Gulliver's Travels can be read as a satire in British intellectual life; it's not just a fairy tale.
What is Interpretation
100
How many facets of understanding does chapter 4 discuss?
What is six
200
The ability to use knowledge effectively in new situations and diverse, realistic contexts.
What is application
200
When explaining students move between the text and their own experience to find legitimate but varying interpretations.
What is false (When interpreting students move between the text and their own experience to find legitimate but varying interpretations)
200
Can find the value in what others might find odd, alien, or implausible; perceive sensitively on the basis of prior direct experience.
What is empathize
200
Seventh grade students use their knowledge of statistics to accurately project next year's costs and needs for the student-run candy and supply store.
What is application
200
This refers to self-knowledge about how we think and why, and the relation between our preferred methods of learning and our understanding (or lack of it)
What is metacognition
300
Critical and insightful points of view.
What is perspective
300
Understanding involves matching our ideas, knowledge and actions to context.
What is true
300
Tell meaningful stories; offer apt translations; provide a reveling historical or personal dimension to ideas and events; make the object of understanding personal or accessible through images, anecdotes, analogies, and models.
What is interpret
300
An adolescent empathizes with the restrictive lifestyle of if his bedridden grandmother.
What is empathy
300
What any _________ designed for understanding must do, then, is to help students realize that their job is not merely to take in what is "covered" but to actively "uncover" what lies below the surface of the facts and to ponder their meaning.
What is curriculum
400
The wisdom to know one's ignorance and how one's patterns of thought and action inform as well as prejudice understanding.
What is self-knowledge
400
Self-knowledge requires respect for people different from ourselves.
What is false (Empathy requires respect for people different from ourselves.)
400
Show metacognitive awareness; perceive that personal style, prejudices, and habits of mind that both shape and impeded our own understanding; are aware of what we do not understand; reflect on the meaning of learning and experience.
What is have self-knowledge
400
Mindful of her learning style, a middle school student deliberately uses graphic organizers to help her study.
What is self-knowledge
400
This type of understanding is not about any student's particular point of view but about the mature recognition that any answer to a complex question typically involves a point of view; hence, an answer is often one of many possible plausible accounts.
What is perspective
500
Sophisticated and apt theories and illustrations, which provide knowledgeable and justified accounts of events, actions, and ideas.
What is explanation
500
This statement is an example of self-knowledge: "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"
What is false
500
through generalizations or principals, providing justified and systematic accounts of phenomena, facts, and data; make insightful connections and provide illuminating examples or illustrations.
What is explain
500
A 9th grade physics student provides a well-argues account of why the car on the air track accelerates the way it does when the incline of the roadway is varied.
What is explanation
500
Who stated this: Application of understanding is thus a context-dependent skill, requiring the use of new problems and diverse situations in assessment?
What is Bloom (1981)
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