UbD/DI Chapter 6: Responsive Teaching With UbD in Academically Diverse Classrooms

Chapter 6 of UbD/DI is about finding ways to successfully differentiate in the classroom. At first is seems impossible to differentiate each lesson to every student’s specific needs but the chapter suggests looking at it differently. Instead of tailoring each lesson to each student it is better to look at patterns of learning or find groups of students that seem to be relatively in the same place or who learn in similar ways. This will be very usefully in my classroom when I am trying to find ways to teach all of my students in a way that makes sense to them. This seems like the best way to differentiate. It is much easier to look for patterns than try to tailor every lesson to every individual.