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

This chapter talks about the environment of the classroom, and how it is necessary for the students learning. When beginning to discuss the environment of a classroom, it talks about how it should flow like a melody and that a “teacher is always aware of the melody – the curriculum goals – but finds many different ways to the melody” (89). This goes to show that not only will the teacher need to create a melody for their classroom; they will also need to be able to change that melody to fit each of their students. When the students are comfortable, and know that the teacher is making the adjustments for the classroom to be comfortable, then their learning will greatly improve. Another thing this chapter talked about, which I found to be very interesting, is that in order for the classroom too be comfortable to the students it needs to be flexible. This flexibility exists in many forms through time, space, resource’s, strategies from the teacher and students, and partnerships, to name a few. While in the classroom I will keep in mind of these key elements of flexibility, and use them to help me when I have run out of tricks from my bag of tricks that Dr. Theresa talks about.