How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most

Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future.

K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial role in building a thriving society. David Perkins, founding member and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, argues that curriculum is one of the most important elements of making students ready for the world of tomorrow. In Future Wise, you'll learn concepts, curriculum criteria, and techniques for prioritizing content so you can guide students toward the big understandings that matter.

Understand how learners use knowledge in life after graduation

Learn strategies for teaching critical thinking and addressing big questions

Identify top priorities when it comes to disciplines and content areas

Gain curriculum design skills that make the most of learning across the years of education

Future Wise presents a brand new framework for thinking about education. Curriculum can be one of the hardest things for teachers and administrators to change, but David Perkins shows that only by reimagining what we teach can we lead students down the road to functional knowledge. Future Wise is the practical guidebook you need to embark on this important quest.

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 哈佛大學教育研究生院資深教授，美國著名教育心理學傢，國際思維協會組織委員會常委，全球教育界知名演講傢和顧問。

 哈佛大學“零點項目”創始人之一，與霍華德•加德納一起，作為“零點項目”的負責人共同工作超過25年。從最初成立至今，50年來，零點項目緻力於研究智力、理解、思考、創意與人類的學習等相關議題，吸引瞭來自全球近20個國傢和地區的研究者、老師，尤其是美國諸多專業人士、國際學校的教師等參與其中，並定期舉辦研討會和工作坊，推廣研究成果。

 曾在美國、澳大利亞、荷蘭、瑞典、南非、以色列、中國等國傢研發和講授關於思維的教育計劃和方法。