UbD - Chapter 2 - What Really Matters In Teaching? (The Students)

The concept I agreed with most in this chapter was the dismissal of the “take-it-or-leave-it” delivery of information. Many years ago, a student would sit quietly at their desk, the teacher would talk, the student would learn. I don’t know how they learned but supposedly they did. Nowadays, teachers need to make sure ALL of the students are learning, and if they’re not, teachers can’t just say “oh well” and move on with the rest of the class. In a way, it’s like the motto “the customer’s always right.” If students aren’t absorbing what we’re teaching, than we need to find a new way to teach them because at the end of the day, our job is to teach.