UbD Chapter 4

" For teachers and students alike, the goal is not perfection but persistence in the pursuit of understanding important thing."

     This chapter covers some of the most important factors of establishing a well-to-do differentiated universally designed classroom. It discusses a few key attitudes and skills like, but not limited to, the following : clear curricular essentials, accepting responsibility for learners failure and success, building awareness of students, and helping students realize their own strengths as a learner. In total there were 9 given skills and attitudes, all that need to be combined to make the most efficient learner friendly classroom possible.
     This chapter was very useful in helping me to acknowledge some of the tools and skill I am going to need to be able to utilize if I hope to have a more successful classroom in the future. For instance, it hadn't occurred to me that a student's success and failure ALWAYS weighed heavily on the teacher. Obviously the teacher has a part in it always, but I had seemed to have the idea that some students simply didn't want to learn, which I have happily learned is not always the case. I will always be ready to accept my responsibility in the success and shortcomings of my teaching. Outside of this, I had never thought of the importance of showing a student their own strengths, or as the book reads " help students become effective partners in their own success." I always knew that it was important for the teacher to know what areas a particular student was strong in, especially when designing the curriculum, but after the explanation the book gave I now know how important it is for the student to be aware of these as well.