UbD/DI- Chapter 6

This chapter helps to shed light on what teachers need to do in order to successfully use and integrate differentiated instruction in the classroom. Teachers must allow for many varying factors when they are planning and teaching lessons. The have to allow for the different needs of their students, their different learning styles, find a common ground among the students, and find similar learning styles or inclination towards things among students. It may be difficult to cater to every single student, with every intelligence, all at once. This is why teachers must try to find a common ground between tailoring to each student and teaching one way to all. Using this idea, teachers may be able to get into a pattern in order to effectively teacher all of the time to their ever changing and unique students. I also believe that just as a teacher must learn to work with his or her students the students need to work with each other as well as the teacher. They need to adapt to the teacher’s way of teaching so that they can mesh with each other effectively. Teachers need to be able to ensure that teaching in this light their lessons are not simply molded for one purpose, for the student, but are molded for the material and to help let the students grow on their own.

One key point this chapter seems to be drilling into my mind is flexibility. Teachers and students must be able to mold and shape themselves to not only the material, the classroom setting, but each other as well. Another key point I feel is being drilled into my mind is response. Being able to respond not just physically and mentally but emotionally as well can only help to foster my knowledge and skills. Learning all of these tools now as a student trying to change into the mindset of a teaching will only benefit me in the long run. Knowing and learning continuously will help me not just for myself but for my students for all my years of teaching to come.