ch. 7: Teaching for Understanding in Academically Diverse Classrooms

How do we “uncover” content? Won’t that take too much time? Tomlinson showed us how we can make group-work relatable and reasonable. This comes from “Big Ideas” using the 6 facets and the WHERETO framework along with essential questions. Essential questions come work reasoning and open up doorways to understanding. I believe I will take the WHERTO framework and use it in my teaching as a set-up to lesson plans and units. Tomlinson and McGighe show that a good teacher is willing to work with his/her students and learn to be flexible to questions.