Chapter five of UBD/DI deals with having students demonstrate understanding, connecting this chapter with chapter three of Fair Isn’t Always Equal. This chapter establishes neatly laid out principles of effective assessment. These include things like having many assessments over the course of the learning, matching assessments to goals established while putting together the lesson plans, tuning assessments to the purpose they will ultimately serve, and giving students options as to how they will show that they learned. I can feel this focus on assessments shaping how I will ultimately teach. I wouldn’t say that it’s showing me what’s really important in teaching, but it is definitely giving me ideas about how to show others that I understand what’s really important in teaching.
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