UbD: Chapter 1

This chapter presented the fact that the students within a classroom may vary greatly when it comes to their learning capabilities and where they are at in the course. For me this was very interesting because normally, or at least where I went to high school, the advanced kids would sign up for advanced classes and the kids that may be a little behind would have a certain class and then everyone else in between would too. In all the scenarios presented in this chapter the teacher had every kind of student imaginable in one classroom and had to adjust to each and every need where different homework assignments and ways of presenting ideas were needed. I feel that adjusting to every students needs may be very challenging, for the plain fact that grouping kids of the same level together may cause issues. I want to know where the line is drawn between adjusting to a students needs and simply labeling them because of their capabilities because it can be a touchy subject.