Week 3 Readings

I finished my readings and posts early this week because of no posted readings or assignments yet in my Design II class. Rather than wait for the big rush I decided to get ahead in this class.
The first reading out of our text "Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design was fairly interesting. I read the first three chapters with chapter 1 dealing with UbD and DI as an essential partnership. The partnership is important for todays educators because of the need to make sure that the content is being covered at the same time recognizing the need to meet the needs of your students and their different approaches to learning. I really enjoyed the title to chapter 2 "What Really Matters in Teaching? (The Students). The chapter dealt with teaching Responsively .By that I mean that you must develop relationships with your students and know who they are and understand what you can do to get them to succeed. Chapter 3 dealt with what really matters in learning and that would be CONTENT. Part of the chapter dealt with Backward Design and it's three stages.1) Identify desired results -what students should know,understand and be able to do.essential questions.what "enduring" understandings are desired. 2)Determine acceptable evidence- how do we assess the desired results.Will students develop proficiency.#) Plan Learning experince and instruction- activities, sequences, resouces.
We also spent a great deal of time researching the terms goals and objectives. The most important thing that I learned from this activity was that the objectives are the most important part of instructional design. The importance of writting clear objectives that can be assessed so that you know that the students have a good grasp of the cocepts taught are important.
I now have some excellent resources to go to with the Taxonomy of Significant Learning and Blooms Taxonomy. These resources will be very useful to develop goals and objective strategies for my final project and also my capstone.