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Nicholas
**Chapter 10:** Within this chapter I enjoyed reading about the suggested aspects for you as an individual teacher. I found the questions to be very helpful when deciding how effective your ideas are in the classroom. Are your students more engaged? Are they more motivated? Are they producing higher-quality work? Are they learning more? Are they showing deeper understanding? Which students are moving consistently toward your desired goals? Which ones are not? All of these questions are a great way for you to assess yourself as a teacher. This chapter also reminds you not to give up on new strategies. Not everything you do is going to be perfect the first time or second time for that matter. The authors urge teachers to try new strategies at least three times before deciding how effective that particular approach is. You need to give yourself time to work out the bugs and develop a comfort with your new strategy. As a teacher it will become very important for me to continually try new approaches to teaching because I am always hesitant to change my style. My students will have to be willing to work with me and help me improve my new ideas so that I know if it is effective or if it isn’t how it can be improved. This goes to show that feedback is not only important to students but you us as teachers as well.

Lizzie
Looking back at this chapter, I can tell that my student vs. teacher mental state has changed since the begining of the semester. The key points that I still highlighted in this chapter are- When begining any lesson, class, work, activity, you always need to consider the desired results. Once all of the desired results have been considered and established, you need to consider the data. After this information, with specific results in mind, you need to shift the thinking to "assessors". This chapter really, at first and now, highlights the importance of thinking big starting small. Creating too much at once can cause confusion, stress, and an overwhelmed feeling within not just teacher but student. With any innovation, it is possible to run into rough spots or problems. Finding support and advice through these rough spots and problems is what creates a better outcome. Considering the fact that there will be issues, helpful advice, workshops, people, as well as negative aspects to your career of teaching- you need to consider what can help at the school level and at the district level. I still feel that the progress achieved is directly related to the educated and consistent or "persistent" efforts of teachers and students working together. I disagree however that all of these options and advice will be out there for me to utilize. I feel that with the way our education system is growing- many teachers are teaching not the way the students should be taught, but the way that they were taught, several (up to a 30) years ago. Key factors that I believe are still important are readiness, interest, learning profile, as well as looking at the model of DI itself over and over again. Although I still agree with the majority of the information I highlighted before, one thing that I noticed now more than ever is not what the students can do, it is not what they have access to and process, and it is not what the students will be able to do. but rather, for me, it is what I can help the students to do, what I can provide for them as a leaping point for learning, and what I can push and encourage my students to grow to be able to achieve.

Andrew D
This chapter is about acting on the ideas that have been discussed in this book and moving forward. The chapter once again reminds the reader to use the effective backwards design process to help plan a unit. As a teacher we need to motivate all of our students and make sure they come away from each unit with a deeper understanding of the topic. Teachers need to face the challenge of motivating all of our students and understanding that “yesterday is never good enough for tomorrow.” The book ends by mentioning that UbD and differentiated instruction is a worthy guide to help our educators improve our education system. This chapter impacted me because I will make sure I am one of those teachers who will do whatever I can to motivate all of my students and allow them to have a deep understanding of everything I teach them. It will impact my classroom because I will use the backward design process in creating all of my units.