DI/UbD Chapter 5

Summary-

This chapter stated that it was about assessing learning and evidence but it as a whole every member of our team agreed that it seemed to be about understanding over simple knowledge. The photo-album versus a snapshot of a students understanding of a concept is one point that was strictly noticed in all of the summaries of this chapter. The authors go on about the "big ideas", the six facets of understanding, GRASPS, pre-assessment, the backward learning model with respect to differentiated assessment, and most importantly different ways of assessing students or way for students to show understanding. Students may know the procedures but that does not mean that they understand the concepts, the "why?'s".

Reflection-

Everyone in our group focused on something different to reflect on from this chapter. I chose Staying focused and on track, and the fact that we may sway mildly from the track to touch upon relevant information but we must come back and regroup. Heather focused on the idea of pre-assessment. She found it to be a very important tool in teaching. It is very important to know what the students know and don't know in order to teach them something new. Mike focused on two things, the fact that with respect to knowledge you either know something or don't and if you don't you need more time to be able to understand it. He also focused on the differences between knowing and understanding, which are big and important differences. We as educators of new generation need to understand that our students need to understand as well as just know the information. Meghan focused on the different types of assessment and how she wished she had had more assessments like the ones listed in the book rather than the standard tests and such she was given in high school. All in all our team gained a lot from this chapter.