Chapter nine of DI UbD, “Bringing it all Together: Curriculum and Instruction Through the Lens of Ubd and DI” is looking at how to use the principles of backward design and differentiation in the learning process. It is looking at what the benefits could be to the learners in the classrooms where this is applied. It also looks at what we could expect to see in these classrooms. Teachers who are guided by the backwards design model and differentiated instruction work on: identifying desired learning results for the subject and topics they teach, determining acceptable evidence of student learning planning learning experiences and instructions based on the first two principles, and looking at differences in learning as important and inevitable. This chapter gives very good examples of how to use backward design in tasks. It also provides a very good sample rubric. The given tasks have quizzes and multiple forms of assessment and each one is explained clearly. Combining differentiated instruction and backwards design is a lot of hard work, requiring a lot of time, if done effectively. This chapter also focuses on the fact that students should be succeeding in a teachers unit. If this is not the case, then there are techniques that can switch things up to help them learn successfully. An important thing that this chapter states is that a respectful, safe environment is the only place where differentiation can take place and be helpful.
The class liked how this chapter brought everything together. They liked the great examples of a finished unit, which gives a look at what a finished product will look like. Students write that this will be quite helpful. Some students said that they never understood how differentiated instruction was possible as a teacher. This chapter showed how to further incorporate differentiated instruction when teaching. Students thought that the different examples of units and of assignments helped clarify certain questions that the class still had about DI. Students thought that this chapter was packed with information and was a little hard to understand at times because of the amount of information. Students found that this chapter did a good job pulling everything together that we’ve learned in class.
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The website on backwards design provides a great step by step example of how ot use backwards design when creating lessons. After looking through this website and exploring the links I have found that I want to use this site when developing my lesson plans because it makes it easy to follow their directions and provides reasons for why we do it this way.
The backward design website it a great one! This website shows a step by step way to formulate a unit and all the important areas, such as creating assessments, that need to be included to make a good unit. I am definitely going to use this website for the next time I have to plan a unit. It simplifies the steps and breaks them down in a way that is easy to understand.
the links that Mike Cummings, Detective Mike Cummings, provided are very helpful. The links go directly to pages that give a brief overview of backward design, but also provide several resource links that provide tools such as, adapting curriculum for student needs, ELA best learning techniques, and tips for including backward design in language arts.
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