UbD/DI- Chapter 4

This chapter focuses on how crucial it has become to incorporate differentiated instruction into the classroom and the curriculum. It also emphasizes the importance of striving to become not just a good teacher but a successful teacher. There are two different ideas that arise when one wants to become a successful teacher, these two ideas are curriculum and structure/instruction. Both of these aspects have to have and equal balance, combining them effectively for the students. The teacher also needs to focus not on their success but the students’. In order to be able to teach and combine these ideas effectively a teacher must be able to master them. When a teacher can do all of this and create a prevailing curriculum the students can have a better chance of learning, knowing, and better yet understanding the material. Differentiated instruction may be one of the best ways to evoke an open bond or relationship between teach and learning, the teacher and the student.
A teacher must be able to act and react to the students wants and needs, this involves being able to teach and mold the classroom to the students strengths and weaknesses. When teacher wants to become the most effective there are nine steps one can follow: having a clear curriculum, accept responsibility for the student success in school, create a respectful environment, talk and share with other about multiple intelligences, have well developed classroom management, help students, have flexibility, use a variety of instructional strategies, and reflect on student progress.

This chapter helped me to understand that there are different ways that a teacher can respond to the students in order to convey the material and be effective. The nine steps or skills really resemble the MEL theory, using different concepts and applying them to one’s own ability creates growth within the teacher and ultimately the student. The teachers need to be learning and growing with the students in order to be effective. It is interesting to know that a teacher can be successful and effective in so many different ways. This makes me wonder why there are so many teachers who are outdated and ineffective out there.