Understanding by design chapter 1

"Teachers are designers. An essential act of our profession is the crafting of curriculum and learning experiences to meet specified purposes" Understanding by design Grant Wiggins and Jay Mc Tighe

When a company does not take into account the potential customers' interests, it is almost sure than in few years or even months it is going to go bankrupt. when we think that students are our "customers" we should take into account their interests motivation and many other features in oreder to achieve one big purpose that is learning. It is in this case that teachers are designers.

We have got to set and make plans in order to help our students learn english. It is not all about going to the classroom and stand there, there has to be a thorough plan that supports our teaching methods and the assesments that we use.

Hence the need to better plan or class in order to achieve the desired results. this process consist of three steps or stages:

1.identify desired results. we should ask orselves before plannig what our sts should know or be able to do. it is important to have a goal to achieve or a mindmap in order to better achieve our learning goals. it is crucial in this stage to consider all the aspects (national standards, curriculum, and even more importan classroom reality)

2. determine acceptable evidence how do teachers determine that the goal is achieved? it is important to think about the mechanisms we will use to evaluate results and desired learnings. When you think and plan this stage before implementation, it helps the teacher to forecats further situations and overcome frustation. What it is more, it helps to avoid frustration and save time.

  3.plan learning experiences and instruction. after we have already all the mind processes involved in learning, we have to go over the practical part. which methods are the best or better work out in our foreground (classroom)? this is the stage in which teacher have to link their experiences and knowledge to achieve the desired results.

To sum up, it is important for teacher to better plan their classes and consider that we are leraning builders/designers. We have one goal that is help out our sts to learn english. with that purpose in mind, we should start up and design for learning.