Supporting Student Understanding: Instruction and Assessment

1. What is a matter of understanding? What knowledge is worth understanding (priorities)?

2. What is Understanding and apparent understanding? What does our language reveal about understanding? What is student misunderstanding and what does it tell us?

3. What does each facet of the Six Facets of Understanding implies when we
truly understand?

4. Assessments for understanding at various levels: How to design assessments that support understanding: a. Rubrics, b. Standards of Assessment, and c. Knowledge (performance) versus insight