As a new teacher I almost seem to have no choice but to know the standards before organizing and scheduling a lesson (an unit) let alone design a project! In my M.Ed. program in Secondary Education, I had to read, know, and live Understanding by Design in order to fully comprehend the importance of knowing where the student needs to go before designing the road map.
I attended a seminar put on by the Arizona Department of Education last month where once again Understanding by Design was brought to the table as a viable means of getting students from Point A to Point B (no geometry pun intended). Aimless meandering along course content is no longer an acceptable manner in which to facilitate student learning. Now it is imperative, along with course content, to plan from the assessment backward in order to promote student learning along with the inclusion of the technology standards.
Rosemary Shaw's article only reinforced what I instinctively knew before I signed up for EDT530.
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