UbD and DI Chapter 7

Chapter seven tells us how to make sure that we are teaching for understanding (something that students should remember for the rest of our lives) instead of memorizing (which may or may not be remembered for more than a week). Many of us experienced the "covering" though process, "we really need to cover chapter 4," or "we've finished covering that so it's time to move on." The key is to uncover material, and go in depth. As we've learned in class, we need to identify essential questions that we want students to be able to answer at the end of a unit. The book offered an acronym to keep in mind when planning what we are going to teach. A theme that was present in this chapter, that I've noticed in most other chapters is that students constantly need to be able to identify how content relates to them personally.