The document discusses teaching for understanding. It states that understanding is an active process that requires using various learning skills. A teacher teaches for understanding when they identify learning goals and design activities for students to apply different strategies. It provides examples like Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and Bruner's theory of discovery learning, which involve learning through problem solving and making connections. The document also notes that students retain more through active learning like discussing and performing concepts than passive learning like reading.

1. Innovación Educativa
Profesor: Dagoberto Sandoval
Student: Silvia Buján Gómez
III CO 2014
Response #2
Teaching for Understanding
According to the reading, understanding is a very abstract concept and also a little
bit hard to define sometimes. In my opinion, understanding is an active process which
requires involving all of our different learning skills. As a student, I know that I understood
something when I am able to apply it in a variety of contexts on repeated occasions. While
as a teacher, I know that I am teaching for understanding when I identify my main goals
and based on those I prepare a set of activities in which my students can apply different
learning strategies, not just one. A good example to illustrate my opinion could be Howard
Gardner´s Multiple Intelligence Theory, which states that we all have 8 or even more
different kinds of intelligences, so we should try to develop each one in order to weave
knowledge into an integral and cohesive whole.

2. Other good example could also be Bruner´s Theory of Discovery Learning which is
basically learning by doing. His theory states that student´s learning takes place in problem
solving situation, in which they have to link their previous knowledge with the new input
and make connections or discover the relationship between both. As a result, students may
be more likely to remember concepts discovered by their own. After all, as Silvia Castro
mentioned in the video, we only learn a 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30%
of what we see, 50% of what we hear and see, 70% of what we say, and a 90% of what we
do.
10%
reading
20% audio
30% visual
50% audio-visual
70% discuss
90% performed
Finally, something that I found very interesting not only from the reading, but also from the
video was that our brain is very flexible, so as bigger the stimulus bigger the connections
we make inside our brain, and therefore, more significant the learning process.