Chapter 6 outlines the ways in which understandings can be distinguished. Some features are: important inference and durable learning beyond a specific topic. The authors claim that understanding requires that students have to propose, test, question, criticize and verify. By doing these students can draw the inference accurately.
It is said that many skills are successfully mastered when they become part of a fluent and flexible repertoire (p.129). The cornerstone of this notion is the ability to judge which skill can be used to be able to understand the meaning that is between the lines. Here is where UbD can be considered a tool to focus our attention to develop a skill through the so called desired understandings i.e. the student should understand the underlying concepts of a particular skill.
To conclude, when planning the desired results we have to frame understanding not only to restate the topic but also to transfer it to other situations.
For students to understand the underlying concept...let me tell you that is hard to get. They don't really think or question, they just receive information. We need a real change
ReplyDeleteIf we want students to truly understand content, we have to settle the appropriate goals and questions that makes them overcome misunderstandings and confusion.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, most of our students are not used to question, criticize or verify the information we present. Today, more than ever, it is fundamental that we develop those skills, since they have access to plenty of information and they need to know how to discriminate what is reliable from what is not.
ReplyDeleteIt is a hard task, isn´t it ? Leading the students to uncover what it is said “between lines ” and understand how to apply it, seems to be one of the goals in Education. You know what, I think teachers need more academic and economic support to accomplish Educational aims for EVERYBODY.
ReplyDeleteI really like your summary. Clear and straight to the point. The last line says it all!
ReplyDeleteWe have to clearle have in mind what we want to transfer to our students.. A strutured program have to be developed in anticipation... So that, ideas will be clear anf fluent....
ReplyDeleteWe have to clearly have in mind what we want to transfer to our students.. A structured program have to be developed in anticipation... So that, ideas will be clear anf fluent....
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