Name: Team 2 Date: September 19, 2007
Book Title: DI and UbD Chapter: 3
Our group collectively summarized this chapter as an explanation of backwards planning. In response to the massive amounts of material teachers are faced with within their concentrations, this method of designing a unit helps break down what truly needs to be taught and learned. By following the three stages of this model (determine desired goals, figure out how to measure learning, and create appropriate lesson plans) a teacher can now think about only the material that is universally important within that specific unit. This chapter also speaks of differentiation and how it can be combined with backwards design to reach kids of all kinds and get them all to understand the same essential questions, no matter the path they take to get there.
Reflection:
Abbie pointed out the relationship between the wording of the essential understandings and the form of assessment given to test that knowledge. Most of us felt that the backwards planning method is important and logical. It seems that each of us would tend to think this way naturally, but now that we have the terminology and understanding of it, it has become that much more pertinent to our futures.
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