Teaching for Transfer

Teachers across kindergarten through twelfth grade can use this guide to reshape their lessons so students carry what they learn into unfamiliar situations. The goal is to help young people grow into creative, well-rounded citizens who can meet and overcome the problems they will face outside school.

The book is organized in five chapters. It begins by helping students build connected networks of surface-level and deeper understanding, then extends those networks beyond the original context. Later chapters show how to bring change into learning through varied viewpoints and productive confusion, how to engage students in transfer-level work, and how to fold transfer into everyday teaching and learning routines. Foreword author Jay McTighe and afterword author Tammy Heflebower contribute to the volume.

Throughout, the author offers practices and protocols that teachers can try in their classrooms right away. Three appendices collect resources for foundational learning, for developing transfer networks, and for student engagement in transfer-level tasks. References, resources and an index close the book.