UbD: Chapter 4

The part of this chapter I found to be the best was when it stated that some teachers may give kids that are behind less work and ones that are ahead more work to incorporate differentiation. That should not be the case, the kids that are ahead should receive work that extends on the knowledge they already know just as the ones that are behind. But still my problem with grouping students based on what they know on a given topic still bothers me. I know it is to benefit them so they can be assigned work to further their understanding but I still feel like it is labeling them or at least the students will look at it like that. The ones that are ahead may notice that the group of kids further behind aren’t doing more difficult assignments like them and that could cause a problem. It makes sense to me to determine where students are and base their work upon that but students may see it differently because middle school and high school can be vicious places.