UbD is one approach that teachers may use in their classroom. In my opinion, it is a good approach especially for teachers such as myself that are teaching social studies. When I was in school, I would *know* the content for the exam the following month, but I did not *understand* it and I was forgetting the knowledge easily. Knowledge is at the bottom of Bloom's taxonomy and is essential that we push our students to the highest levels of Bloom's. To me, UbD just makes sense. It advocates that teachers figure out how they will assess their students first to ensure that the lesson matches up with the outcome. This "Backwards" approach helps teachers avoid giving students meaningless work or work that is too easy. Learning should have affects that extend outside of the classroom. It should not be copy and paste memorization, but a way for students to learn how to inquiry and make conclusions based on facts.
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