Importance Of Understanding In Education

Understanding Understanding As future educators, we are interested in learning more about student’s understandings in the classroom. Educators are constantly wondering what will help students understand the content that is being taught and how students will be able apply this learning later in their education. We may be able to see students provide various understandings throughout the classroom, but are we truly aware of what it means to understand? For students to be able to truly understand what they are learning, students should be able to transfer and apply what they are learning between different content areas as well as outside of the classroom. If our students can transfer what they know between various situations and materials, then

When we think of understanding, we might often think of knowledge. Knowledge and understanding go hand in hand with one another, in fact, we can have knowledge without understanding, but we cannot have understanding without knowledge. Knowledge helps provide an understanding for students, but for students to truly understand what they are learning, students must be able to transfer their understanding across the different content areas. “The ability to transfer our knowledge and skill effectively involves the capacity to take what we know and use it creatively, flexibly, fluently, in different settings or problems on our own” (Wiggins and McTighe 2004). It is highly important for teachers to be aware of the importance of transferring student’s knowledge and understandings through different content areas to help students become successful in their education. When students can transfer their understandings, students will also be able to apply their understandings as

One example that I have gained a deep understanding of is when making pizza. When I was younger, my mom had always made homemade pizza. As I grew older, I wanted to try making homemade pizza on my own. After observing my mom make pizza, I finally had the courage to try it on my own. The first few times I had made the pizza, I noticed that the dough didn’t rise as well as I had imagined it would. I knew that next time I would need to make a few adjustments to the ingredients that I had added. Each time when I had made pizza I had experienced trial and error and kept learning from the mistakes that I had made. Each mistake that I had made gave me a deeper understanding of how I can make homemade pizza. We may not realize it but throughout our life time we gain understandings of different things that we continue to practice throughout our every day