I found the UBD group project very difficult and very stressful. However, "fleshing out" (once I understood it meant lesson plan) a two hour training segment of the 15 hours of novice teacher professional development, was extremely interesting and very valuable to the learning process of UBD. So the actual UBD method of teaching, presenting new material to students, really works! It made sense to me that it would work after finishing the Wiggins & McTighe book but to actually plan a lesson plan was the full circle of our true UBD course.
I am not sure if everyone really understands that this is the point of the whole course. No spoon feeding or memorizing. We are supposed to weekly UNDERSTAND the process by doing. I think the problem for me was not enough time in our groups to work on each section and then not enough feedback. But a very interesting way to change the way we think and learn about how to teach.
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I hear you. This was not the nest way to do it, but the process was a key component in understanding this. It would have been beneficial if we can more instruction, more example, more direction. Now that we have feedback, it should take us to where we need to go. I hope to master this UbD well beyond this course. Good work
Exactly, the New Teacher Project was one gigantic Performance Assessment!
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