Teachers try to help their students learn. But why do they make the
particular teaching choices they do? What resources do they draw upon?
What accounts for the success or failure of their efforts? In How We
Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician, Alan H. Schoenfeld, proposes
a groundbreaking theory and model for how we think and act in the
classroom and beyond. Based on thirty years of research on problem
solving and teaching, Schoenfeld provides compelling evidence for
a concrete approach that describes how teachers, and individuals more
generally, navigate their way through in-the-moment decision-making in
well-practiced domains. Applying his theoretical model to detailed
representations and analyses of teachers at work as well as of
professionals outside education, Schoenfeld argues that understanding
and recognizing the goal-oriented patterns of our day to day decisions
can help identify what makes effective or ineffective behavior in the
classroom and beyond.

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