Friday, 7 December 2012

understanding by design chapter 2

"Understand"... do we really understand what does "understand" mean?
there is a problem related to the difference between knowledge and understanding. According to what Wiggins said about understanding, it is a menthal process which is more complex than just knowing something. Understanding is the process of comprehend and assimilate what is the main trunk of something in order to fully comprehend all the branches.
Hence, there is evidence of how important understandig is. Teachers have to understand many things before design a curriculum:
What is the importance of this content? is it really useful?
does this activity work? what can the students learn from it?
When we understand all these questions before designing and we do not lose our object of sight, we will improve the class efficiency and students proficiency

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