Teaching for Transfer

"In Teaching for Transfer: A Guide for Designing Learning With Real-World Application, author Michael McDowell provides a guide that educators can use to improve their teaching, engage their students, and develop their students' transfer abilities. McDowell notes that teachers want students to meet transfer goals and become proficient in transfer. However, McDowell notes, creating a classroom and curriculum that develops students' transfer abilities is a daunting task. As such, this book answers the how and the why of teaching for transfer. Readers will become familiar with transfer and study the foundational concepts and theories of teaching for transfer. Using this foundational background, they will also be provided with an in-depth, concrete guide to the styles of teaching that are necessary to effectively develop students' transfer abilities. Using this book, readers will have all of the information and actionable strategies that they need to develop a system of teaching that enables all students to hit their transfer goals"--