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    Powerful understanding : helping students explore, question, and transform their thinking about themselves and the world around them / Adrienne Gear.

    • Title:Powerful understanding : helping students explore, question, and transform their thinking about themselves and the world around them / Adrienne Gear.
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    • Author/Creator:Gear, Adrienne, author.
    • Published/Created:Markham, Ontario, Canada : Pembroke Publishers, [2018]
      ©2018
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Social skills--Study and teaching (Elementary)
      Social learning.
    • Description:172 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
    • Summary:"Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read, and reflect on their learning as they develop into stronger readers and writers. Strategic and critical thinking strategies revolve around core anchor books that help integrate thinking into everything you teach--from social responsibility, to immigration, to life cycles. This highly readable book includes a wealth of classroom examples and extensive hands-on activities designed to help students think more deeply, learn more widely, and develop a more powerful understanding of what it means to be a responsible and compassionate person."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index.
    • ISBN:1551383284 paperback
      9781551383286 paperback
    • Contents:The Components of Powerful Understanding
      Lessons on Understanding Self
      Lessons on Understanding Others
      Lessons on Understanding the World
      Final Thoughts
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