Chapter 4 UbD

            The nine attitudes serve as a creed for becoming a professional educator. Each educator should establish curricular essentials. They should create classroom routines and flexible teaching routines to ensure each student succeeds. Within the classroom each student should be respected and possess individual curricular and personal goals. Teachers should recognize how students learn and take responsibility for each student’s success. Finally, they should explore other ways of instructing students. These tenets serve to guide teachers in creating, modifying, and refining their teaching abilities.

            Breaking down each tenet into its own section allows me to see what I need to understand. Each tenet has a brief description, a list of practices that can be implement in a classroom, and a scenario of what these tenets look like in a realistic classroom. An example would be the Building Awareness of What Works for Each Student section. A brief description tells me to use each piece of information to better understand a learner. The list provides me with smaller objectives to complete the overarching goal. The scenario details a strategy used by teachers.

            Taking notes on all my students allows me to learn more about each one. These notes can be obtained during informal conversations, observations in and out of class, and observations made by other educators. With these notes, I can refine assignments to better suit the needs of my students. I would also be able to look back on prior notes and examine if the students has changed over the course of one or more years.