Universal Design for Learning Addressing the Variability of All Learners

Date/Group

Day 1: UDL: Addressing the Variability of All Learners Day 1: UDL Presenters Workshop

Goals for the workshop:

To explore how UDL addresses the challenge of learner variability,

To discuss how to apply the UDL framework to practice

UDL Presenters Academy Goals To support UDL presenters as they begin to

prepare, customize, and deliver the UDL workshop: Addressing the Variability of All Learners.

9:00 - 10:30 Welcome!

Getting to know you exercise Participate in the Institute through

multiple channels: Social Media (#UDL), UDL Connect (add site link)

Slides: 1 -13

Available Technologies

UDL Connect – use the handouts to create a group and join a group

Social Media #UDL

Supports, Considerations, and Thoughts

Options for Getting… Scavenger Hunt, Quadrant

Refer to page 7 in the Presenters Guide for workshop Key Concepts:

Variability is the rule – context matters UDL Guidelines UDL in Practice Tools and Resources

Topic: Learner Variability

Goal: To learn about current brain science in relation to thinking about variability in today’s classrooms Exercise:

Marshmallow Challenge: work with a team towards a common goal. Discussion prompt: with the clear goal of getting the marshmallow to the top of a structure, how was there variability within your team and between teams? Specifically, how was there variability in representation, action, and engagement?

Video to learn more about variability: (~8 min) Variability Matters, Todd Rose

Slides: 14 – 25

Goals:

Refer to Chapter 6, pages 131 – 136 in UDL: Theory and Practice for more information about Goals

Go to page 9 in the UDL Presenter’s Guide - http://presentersguide.cast.org/fg-presenter/reading?13&loc=content.xml_l1970402

Variability Matters video, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WClnVjCEVM

10:30-12:00 Break and Hands-on Check list for Hands-on

Sign up for a UDL Connect Account Join the Sanger UDL Presenter’s Academy group Create a UDL Connect group from the Main page

of the UDL Connect site Login to the UDL Presenters Guideo Explore and become familiar with the

resources Create an account for the UDL: Theory and

Practiceo Look at the sections that were referred to

earlier in the day Review morning slides and add your own notes

Identify your first audience to present to

12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH

Day 1: UDL: Addressing the Variability of All Learners Day 1: UDL Presenters Workshop

Goals for the workshop:

To explore how UDL addresses the challenge of learner variability,

To discuss how to apply the UDL framework to practice

UDL Presenters Academy Goals To support UDL presenters as they begin to

prepare, customize, and deliver the UDL workshop: Addressing the Variability of All Learners.

1:00 – 2:45 Topic: Background information of CAST and UDL

Goal: To learn about the history of CAST, UD, and UDL

Exercise:

Discuss Universal Design and connection to UDL: identify and share examples of how design features in architectural design benefit everyone. How can this concept be applied to the design of curricular materials?

UDL Principles: overview of the UDL Guidelines and explore multiple representations:o Options for the Guidelines: 3 column

version, UDL Worksheet, Blank version, UDL Wheel, online versions

o Video on the UDL Guideline structure: (~2 min) CAST founder David Rose discusses the UDL Guideline structure

Slides 28 – 39

Refer to UDL: Theory and Practice, Chapter 4

Download The Future is in the Margins for background information

See Exercises in the Presenter’s Guide, to support understanding of the three principles http://presentersguide.cast.org/fg-presenter/reading?3&loc=content.xml_l1970430

Copy and paste http://presentersguide.cast.org/fg-presenter/glossary?15&word=l1970494#u into your browser to see the options for the Guidelines. Review each of the varied representations of the Guidelines.

Video: UDL Principles and Practices - http://www.udlcenter.org/resource_library/videos/udlcenter/guidelines#video1

Topic: Introduction to the UDL Guidelines: Multiple Means of Representation

Goal: To discuss how to apply options for representation into lesson design for all students

Exercise:

Video showing variability in perception: (~2 min) Basketball video. Count how many times the players wearing white pass the basketball. Notice the variability in the counting!

Discuss strategies that you already use or that you could use to design learning experiences that support variability in the UDL guidelines: perception, vocabulary, and background comprehension

Slides 1 – 12

Refer to print pages 65 - 72 or online version at http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/reading?49&loc=chapter2.xml_l1969841 (pages 37 - 40)

Refer to print pages 98 - 102 or online version at pages at http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/reading?58&pageNum=54 (page 54)

Refer to print pages 115 - 122 or online version at http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/reading?36&loc=chapter4.xml_l1969807 (pages 62 - 63)

2:45 – 3:00 Evaluation and End of Day Comments