Understanding by Design Chapter 1: UbD and DI: Ab Essential Partnership

Being able to successfully implement understanding by design and differential instruction is key to helping students learn in an effective and welcoming way.  Differential instruction and understanding by design should used together in order to maximize the effectiveness of the teacher.  One of the most important things I saw in the chapter was the part where teachers are still learners.  This is important because as teachers, we will need to keep learning new ways to implement different styles of teaching and learning in our classrooms.  Another one of the important things for teachers to do is to keep the students interested in the material they’re learning.  Allow them to apply the things they are learning to the groups or the activities in their own lives.