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ERIC Number: ED411179
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 16
Abstractor: N/A
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Understanding Goals: Teaching the Humanities for Understanding in Middle School.
Hetland, Lois
This paper focuses on the "Understanding Goals" element from the "Teaching for Understanding" framework. The study featured a one-year study program covering colonial America and integrating history, English, anthropology, geography, and the arts. The paper presents: (1) a definition of "Understanding Goals"; (2) a story of how one teacher came to use the principles of "Understanding Goals"; and (3) the value of "Understanding Goals." The instructor learned the "Teaching for Understanding" framework over two years while teaching seventh grade in an independent school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Author/EH)
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Fused Curriculum, Grade 7, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Unified Studies Curriculum
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Cambridge Public Schools MA; Teaching for Understanding
Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, April 8-12, 1996).