Chapter 6: Crafting Understandings

            In this chapter the authors talk about the understandings, but what is understanding?... According to the authors understanding can be defined as:
1. an important inference, drawn from the experience of experts, stated as a specific and useful generalization.
2. It refers to transferable, big ideas having enduring value beyond a specific topic.
3. It envolves abstract, counterintuitive, and easily misunderstood ideas.
4. Understanding is the best acquired by uncovering and doing the subject.
5. It summarizes important strategic principles in skills areas.
            We have to consider that understanding is not the same for all of us.We have to consider different kind of students which have different abilities and develop skills in a different way. Understanding is a process which requires certain conditions, which we as teachers don't have.
             It is very clear that we have a lot of books explaining the desirable, but what happen in our classroom, with our time, materials, text book and also with headship.Theory is one thing, but reality is another very different thing.