Chapter 1: An Essential Partnership

The first chapter talks about the relationship between differentiated instruction and understanding by design being a partnership. It explains that only performing one of these techniques is not enough to make you an effective teacher. You need to be able to accurately assess who is in your class and how they learn and then continue to monitor them to make sure your lessons are staying relevant to their skills. I completely agree with the idea presented in the chapter that students do not need to be a master of the basics to be able to think. That is an important part for me to remember as I become a teacher. Getting a student to think is a major part to getting them to learn.