Enduring understanding - Stammel

Enduring understanding

Let's try this!

Multiple Choice

What does Enduring mean?

• gaining confidence

• The end of something

• continuing or long lasting

• I have never heard this word before

Enduring understanding is the BIG IDEA that stays with you. It is continuing and long lasting

Have you ever heard that people MISS SEEING THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES? What does it mean?

Multiple Choice

what do you think it might mean to MISS SEEING THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES

• being so lost in a problem we get turned around and lose our way

• being so overwhelmed in details that the big picture is missed

• Ignore the beauty of the leaves above because the wood is blocking our view

• We need better glasses!

ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

the forest you see through the trees

ENDURING UNDERSTANDING

• It is the BIG IDEA we are striving toward

• It's the reason behind using the text

• It's valuable beyond the classroom

• It's what remains after the book is forgotten

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkmi8jit1Cw

Open Ended

What are the things the man in the video does for others? For 1 minute, let's make a list of all the things we can recall.

We might remember a lot, but not all.

Will we remember all the events tomorrow? A year from now? ....probably not. But what WILL we remember? What stays with us?