Chapter 3 What Really Matters in Learning? (Content)

Teachers need to know what they are going to teach and what goals they want for their students to reach. Doing this is not an easy task. There is so much material that can be covered, and it must be narrowed down. This chapter was helpful in breaking apart how a subject matter should be approached in order for a teacher to introduce it to his or her students. The first step is to determine what the main ideas are that the student needs to learn and some questions that they should be able to answer. Secondly, a teacher must know how they are going to assess whether the students have learned what they desire for them to understand. Once the evaluation is determined, than the individual lessons and how they are going to be approached can be developed. This chapter had so much information, however, it is important that a teacher know how to go about generating lessons and units for his or her class.