Chapter 4 UbD/DI: What Really Matters in Planning for Student Success?

In this chapter, the thing that I learned, and was comforting to read was that there is “no such thing as the perfect lesson, the perfect day in school, or the perfect teacher…the goal is not perfection but persistence in the pursuit of understanding important things” (UbD p. 56). It was nice to read this, because being a teacher brings a lot of responsibilities. But, going into it knowing that it’s not going to run smoothly everyday is comforting to read from other professionals. I completely agree with the idea of always on the pursuit of understanding the important things. So maybe something doesn’t go right that day in the lesson that I planned out, that’s fine, as long as the students are learning something from me, then what does it matter if it’s not exactly what I planned out?