How does your new understanding of UbD, integrative curriculum, and young adolescent development affect your concepts of lesson planning?

     Lesson planning can be done in different shapes, forms, and sizes. Lesson plans can be put into many different forms for the teacher to understand what they are going to be working on and what the goal of the lesson is. My understanding go Ubd affects my concepts of lesson planning by allowing me to think about what outcomes I want to have for the lesson or activity. UbD is focusing mainly on the outcome of the learning instead of what is being talked about. Obviously we want our students to understand what we're talking about but we also have set expectations to what we want our outcomes of the lesson to be. During my lesson planning, I can ensure that all content and curriculum is met and hopefully remembered during the activity (or lesson). My new understanding of integrative curriculum affects my concepts of lesson planning by allowing me to plan to connect things with the new content. Connecting real world situations can cause the students to understand what we are talking about. Understanding integrative curriculum can help my lesson planning by also allowing me to create meaningful and engaging activities that include all students. Having meaningful and engaging activities can cause students to use the four C's during their lessons. This causes them to remember more during it. Lastly, my new understanding of young adolescent development can affect my concepts of lesson planning by allowing me to understand their emotional and cognitive standpoints. After being in the middle school and being in Ed Psych, I know that students have shorter attention span. I know that I shouldn't over load their brains, should chunk the material, and should  focus on them remembering the information in their own terms.
    At Phoenix, I see teachers using all of these methods to teach their lesson plans. I see Robert having the students have a real argument about real-life topics. His outcome is to have the students understand how to have a real argument (attack the idea not the person). I see that he want's the students to attack the idea instead of the person's opinions. They learn different fallacies during their school year that prepare them to have an outstanding argument. 
    As a future teacher, I want to have lesson plans that can meet all of these different methods for the classroom. having this in my lesson planning can cause an engaging classroom that allows students to be creative and can communicate/collaborate. Ideally, I want to be able to have an outcome in mind before I finish my lesson plans so I can expect to know what will happen. I also want to have an extremely engaging and interactive classroom that the students will enjoy coming into and learning. Knowing how middle schoolers develop, I can ensure that my lessons won't make them fall asleep, will keep them engaged, and will allow them to show their full potential. 
    The readings and videos this week were primarily shorter videos. We watched learning targets, enduring understanding, understanding essential questions, and read about understanding by design. I really liked the essential questions video because it was newer information for me. I now know that having an essential question is important because it causes focus, understanding, critical thinking, and engagement.