After reading the text called “Understanding by Design” wrote by Grant Wiggins and Jay Mc Tighe, you can deduce that the main ideas of the text are really important to create a good education and even more principal factors when teachers planning or giving a lesson.
The first idea that we took from the text was the understanding versus understand, and how they are a complex problem for teachers.
Understanding is related with the acquisition of a general meaning of information that takes place in our minds and which enables you to achieve more information starting from this data basis. While understand is the fact of showing evidence of this understanding, being able to do something meaningful with it through different tools such as, practice, analysis, interpretation, etc.
The problem that these concepts represent for teachers is that they do not know or do not distinguish the difference between both concepts. Thus, reinforcing just one concept and leaving the other isolated in children’s minds.
Another important idea is the fact of using transfer as a principal learning mechanism. Through transfer children´s minds can go from this demarcated learning to other themes or issues. Thus, improving the ability’s mind to gather and connect information, thus, creating new knowledge.
Finally, the idea of create meaningful assessments for students. Which one measure more than the performance of students, but also the misconceive concepts that they can have.
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I really understood the importance of understanding in the learning proceess. It is importance to assess understanding rather than knowledge.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you with the importance of how important the assessment process is, maybe before this course I was not so aware of it but know I can realize!!!
ResponderEliminarI think that transferring is a very important idea because it helps students to use their understanding to other areas of their lives meaningfully. The things is how we as teacher are going to able to teach them meaningful if they do not have critical teachers so to speak.
ResponderEliminarUnderstanding is mainly based on transferring the information acquired, don't you think? However, most of the time, learners are not give the tools in order to know how to apply that information to other issues. They kneed to be taught to be able to relate concepts and ideas,
ResponderEliminarTransferring is the point in which students can demonstrate if they have acquire something in their minds because they have to put it into practice. Transferring is the action that have to be promoted by teachers because if they do not activate students minds learning is empty.
ResponderEliminarI think that understanding should be used to create more meaningful knowledge as you say, but also the teacher should guide students to know how to manage that information in their own learning process.
ResponderEliminarsome of the purpose in education is to create a good education system, therefore the acquisition of a general meaning of information that takes place in our minds will play an important role in our professional life as teachers.
ResponderEliminarEstoy de acuerdo con lo que mencionas sobre la importancia de evaluaciones significativas. Cuando planificamos las evaluaciones con propósito, para que sean significativas, los estudiantes están más motivados para seguir adelante en el proceso de aprendizaje. Y cuando ellos también encuentran el propósito, van a ver el valor de transferir su conocimiento y entendimientos a otros aspectos de la vida.
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