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"When you Plant Lettuce , it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce"
or the grass is green where you water it, all these bring us a to the thought on we can never blame students if they are not thriving, we should change the approach of teaching and reaching them intellectually. Differentiation in this case is highlighted as a mode of teaching.
What is Enduring Understanding - EU are statements summarizing important ideas and core process that are central to the unit of study, academic disciplines and have lasting value beyond the classroom. It should be applicable in a variety of contexts and serves as a foundation for further inquiry and exploration.
So as per in layman terms, EU starts with
Learning Objectives / Goals - What they can do at the end of this course.
Success Criteria - At the end of the day how are they solving the questions.
Enduring understanding - After the course their take away must that they can apply and solve real life problems.
As they say, planning takes longer than application. Invest 80% time on planning and 20% on application. Its the norm of the bell shaped curve, or the 80/20 principle , and it will work.
As per my Unit of Study Enduring Understanding is Numbers help us understand how many things there are, and we can use them to share information. When we can read and write numbers from 1 to 50, we can count, compare, and talk about amounts in our everyday lives!
Please refer to the Unit plan made on the UDL Planner
UDL sample created for grade 2
Reviewing The unit of Study is explained briefly in the blog of unit planning and Analysis. Kindly go through it. The above hyperlink shows the work thats been done analyzing the entire lesson based on UDL template.
I realized how little we do and how much more we are supposed to do. This exercise was definitely quite an eye opener. And a very important part of the process of teaching. We do not have Potential Barriers in our plan, once thats been inserted the difference would be so visible.
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