Dimensions of Understanding Guide provides thoughtful teachers with a framework for making decisions about planning, teaching, and assessment. The authors explain what teachers can do to build and measure students' understanding in a subject area. This guide comes from the research conducted at Harvard's "Project Zero" and is a companion to The Teaching for Understanding Guide (ISBN 0-7879-0993-9).

Dimensions of Understanding Guide

Education & Teaching

Hetland, Lois

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

The first edition of this bestseller was featured in The New York Times and The Boston Globe for its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the curriculum. Capitalizing on observations and conversations with educators who have used the Studio Thinking Framework in diverse settings, this expanded edition features new material, including: <ul>
<li> The addition of Exhibitions as a fourth Studio Structure for Learning (along with Demonstration-Lecture, Students-at-Work, and Critique).</li> <li> Explanation and examples of the dispositional elements of each Habit, including skill, alertness (noticing appropriate times to put skills to use), and inclination (the drive or motivation to employ skills).</li> <li> A chart aligning Habits to the English Language Arts and Mathematics Common Core.</li> <li> Descriptions of how the Framework has been used inside and outside of schools in curriculum planning, teaching, and assessment across arts and non-arts disciplines.</li> <li> A full-color insert with new examples of student art. </li> </ul>
Studio Thinking 2 will help advocates explain arts education to policymakers, help art teachers develop and refine their teaching and assessment practices, and assist educators in other disciplines to learn from existing practices in arts education. Praise for the First Edition of Studio Thinking― "Winner and Hetland have set out to show what it means to take education in the arts seriously, in its own right." ―The New York Times "This book is very educational and would be helpful to art teachers in promoting quality teaching in their classrooms." ―School Arts Magazine “ Studio Thinking is a major contribution to the field." ―Arts &amp; Learning Review "The research in Studio Thinking is groundbreaking and important because it is anchored in the actual practice of teaching artists …The ideas in Studio Thinking continue to provide a vehicle with which to navigate and understand the complex work in which we are all engaged." ―Teaching Artists Journal “Hetland and her colleagues reveal dozens of practical measures that could be adopted by any arts program, inside or outside of the school….This is a bold new step in arts education.” ―David R. Olson, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto “Will be at the top of the list of essential texts in arts education. I know of no other work in art education with this combination of authenticity and insight.” ―Lars Lindström, Stockholm Institute of Education “The eight studio habits of mind should become a conceptual framework for all preservice art education programs; this book should be read by all early and experienced art educators.” ―Mary Ann Stankiewicz, The Pennsylvania State University

Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Arts & Photography

Winner, Ellen

Veenema, Shirley

Sheridan, Kimberly M.

Study & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Students of all ages can learn to think like artists! Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education changed the conversation about quality arts education. Now, a decade later, this new publication shows how the eight Studio Habits of Mind and four Studio Structures can be used successfully with younger students in a range of socioeconomic contexts and school environments. Book Features: <ul>
<li>Habit-by-habit definitions, classroom examples, and related visual artist exemplars emphasizing contemporary artists.</li> <li>Full color mini-posters teachers can hang in their classrooms to illustrate each of the eight Studio Habits of Mind.</li> <li>Sample templates for students to use as they plan, reflect upon, and talk about works of art.</li> <li>Innovative approaches to assessment and strategies for implementation.</li> <li>Photos throughout the book of Studio Thinking signage and activities, students making art, and student artworks.</li> <li>Suggestions for using Studio Thinking for arts education advocacy.</li> </ul>
COMPANION VOLUME― Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education, Second Edition Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema, and Kimberly M. Sheridan

Studio Thinking from the Start: The K–8 Art Educator’s Handbook

Business & Money

Hogan, Jillian

Jaquith, Diane B.

Education & Reference

Studio Thinking 3: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which they are taught. This expanded, full-color edition includes new material about how the framework has been used since the original study, with new perspectives from artist-teachers who currently apply the Studio Thinking Framework in their own practice. It also reviews how contemporary organizations, educators, and researchers outside the arts have utilized the framework, highlighting its flexibility to inform teaching and learning. 
New chapters for Studio Thinking 3: Students as Contemporary Artists: Building Agency in the Studio highlights how studio teachers support learner autonomy, including the ability to create increasingly self-directed artworks. Artist-Teachers examines how artistic practices and teaching practices intertwine and how the Studio Thinking Framework can nurture the relationship between them. Assessment is a Conversation introduces the practical ways that teachers are using Studio Thinking to assess and evaluate students’ work, working processes, and thinking in the arts. Studio Thinking discusses how the Studio Thinking Framework has informed teaching and research in visual arts, theater, dance, music, arts integration, STEAM, and other contexts. 
The first edition of this bestseller was featured in The New York Times and The Boston Globe for its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the curriculum. Studio Thinking 3 will help advocates explain arts education to policymakers, support art teachers in developing and refining their teaching and assessment practices, and assist educators in other disciplines to learn from existing practices in arts education. 
Book Features: An explanation of “art as thinking” that unpacks and clarifies how teaching art is the process of teaching thinking. An account of what Studio Thinking looks like in diverse contemporary settings. Models of studio arts instruction that illuminate what educators are doing to support students’ learning in the arts and why they are doing it that way. Full-color images with examples of student art throughout the book.

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which they are taught. This expanded, full-color edition includes new material about how the framework has been used since the original study, with new perspectives from artist-teachers who currently apply the Studio Thinking Framework in their own practice. It also reviews how contemporary organizations, educators, and researchers outside the arts have utilized the framework, highlighting its flexibility to inform teaching and learning. New chapters for Studio Thinking 3: <ul> <li>Students as Contemporary Artists: Building Agency in the Studio highlights how studio teachers support learner autonomy, including the ability to create increasingly self-directed artworks.</li> <li>Artist-Teachers examines how artistic practices and teaching practices intertwine and how the Studio Thinking Framework can nurture the relationship between them.</li> <li>Assessment is a Conversation introduces the practical ways that teachers are using Studio Thinking to assess and evaluate students' work, working processes, and thinking in the arts.</li> <li>Studio Thinking discusses how the Studio Thinking Framework has informed teaching and research in visual arts, theater, dance, music, arts integration, STEAM, and other contexts.</li> </ul> The first edition of this bestseller was featured in The New York Times and The Boston Globe for its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the curriculum. Studio Thinking 3 will help advocates explain arts education to policymakers, support art teachers in developing and refining their teaching and assessment practices, and assist educators in other disciplines to learn from existing practices in arts education. Book Features: <ul> <li>An explanation of "art as thinking" that unpacks and clarifies how teaching art is the process of teaching thinking.</li> <li>An account of what Studio Thinking looks like in diverse contemporary settings.</li> <li>Models of studio arts instruction that illuminate what educators are doing to support students' learning in the arts and why they are doing it that way.</li> <li>Full-color images with examples of student art throughout the book.</li> </ul>

This comprehensive professional development program filmed at Harvard University presents the work of Project Zero, a research group at the Graduate School of Education that explores the development of learning in children, adults and organisations. Through this video series and accompanying staff development guide, Project Zero staff provides an examination of how understanding can be viewed, taught, assessed and deepened. Former co-directors Project Zero Howard Gardiner and David Perkins present a foundation upon which the concept of understanding can be more fully explored, evaluated and enhanced. Presenting in this series are many senior researchers from Project Zero. Topics range from The Mindful Classroom to Rubrics for Thinking and Understanding. Project Zero researchers, internationally renowned in the field of teaching and learning, provide a complete package to teachers and staff developers who are committed to improving understanding in all environments for learners of all ages. Contents of Guide: This accompanying professional development guide provides valuable ideas and resources on how to use the video material in effective ways. Educating for Understanding is a set of eight videos filmed at Project Zero's annual summer institute for educators at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. The content is based on research about teaching and learning for understanding that was conducted at Project Zero between 1989-1996. The guide, designed for use with the video series, offers background about the topics and context of the videos, and it suggests practical ways for teachers and administrators to use them for all subjects and grade levels. The videos, coupled with the suggestions for facilitators, lists of resources, and handouts provided in the guide, can serve as the basis for a program of professional development designed to enhance educational practices and help students develop flexible understanding of important topics.

Educating for Understanding: A Guide to the Video Series

Natl Professional Resources Inc

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Dimensions of Understanding Guide

Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Studio Thinking from the Start: The K–8 Art Educator’s Handbook

Studio Thinking 3: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Studio Thinking 3: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Educating for Understanding: A Guide to the Video Series