DI & UbD Chapter Four

This chapter focused primarily on how teachers can build their classrooms to make sure they have maximum student success. Using many examples and giving many scenarios, this chapter highlights that teachers should value their students and create one on one relationships with their students in order to help those students reach their maximum success level. The authors also make sure to debunk such teaching methods like giving advanced students more work and behind students less work, stating that neither of those methods will help either of those groups become better learners.

The authors also make sure to highlight that the teachers must become responsible for the student learner’s success and use all of their skills to assist students in become the best learners they can be. The success of students as learners is just as important as how well they retain the material they learned. Teachers must also make sure to have diversity in their classroom, the authors make sure to note that students will get a lot out of diversity in the classroom and by highlighting on that diversity, students can learn and grow from the differences within the classroom.

Ultimately, this chapter highlights important things that teachers need to understand before going out into the field and how to make sure that all their students reach their maximum potential as learners. I know now, that once I get into the classroom, I have to make sure to highlight and work with everyone’s different methods of learning in order to create that maximum success, much like, how the Multiple Intelligence book highlights how we as teachers must work with every student’s multiple intelligence to help them grow.