Chapter 6: Crafting Understandings

Teachers must be aware about the process of learning, in order to help student to understand the knowledge that it is desired. As teacher we have to explain content from the very basic, and increase complexity once students have reached the previous structures, and have integrated them, we can move to the next content. In this way we can go further in student’s knowledge. In addition, teachers always have to respect the previous knowledge that students have, and take it as a base or source to start building knowledge.

Chapter 5: Essential Questions: Doorways to Understanding

I think it is essential that teachers make questions that let students think beyond what the curriculum, or course books say, and to make those kind of questions always depends on teachers, they have the power to bring students into a more complex understanding about the world in which we live, thus, in the future they can intervene and make a difference.