In this week's reading in The Teaching for Understanding Guide, you will find a description of the four-part framework (abbreviated "the TfU framework") developed by the Teaching for Understanding Project here at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Project Zero. Essentially, this framework is designed to help people who are planning and teaching curriculum to answer three questions:

• What do I most want my students to understand?
• How can I help them develop those understandings?
• How will I (and they) know how well they are understanding (and what they need to do to increase their understanding)?

People who have administrative roles within a school have sometimes translated these questions in this way:

• What do we as a faculty most need to understand?
• What can we do to develop those understandings?
• How will we know when we have achieved those understandings and what we need to do to understand more?

In this session and the coming sessions, you will have the opportunity to explore how these questions can shape your work to help students learn more deeply.