From General to Specific: Applying Universal Design To Your Lesson

Select 1 of the 3 classroom scenarios described on the next slide. Describe at least 2 ways to accommodate your students’ differences as you teach your lesson plan.

In other words, what kind of strategies can you use to accommodate all of your students?

1. Create a single slide in Powerpoint that describes what you could do to accommodate your students. (You may use the template in this file; it’s the last slide of this Powerpoint file.)2. Include an appropriate title. (Larger sized font, bold, centered, main words capitalized.)3. Include a footer: CURR 285-??, Firstname LastName, ThisSemester ThisYear4. Include the name of your identified lesson plan.5. Include an appropriate image of your choice.6. Include at least 3 headings. (Bold, main words capitalized, just like the heading above)7. Provide at least 2 specific strategies to accommodate differences. 8. Use clear and complete sentences.9. Make sure you use the spell checker. Tools => Spelling10. Print the page. Hand it in.11. Expect to upload your file to your TaskStream account.

Mike Beutner, Associate Professor, Strauss 223, Office: 342-3142, beutner@ulm.edu http://ulm.edu/~beutner/When sending email, include CURR285-??, YourFirstName YourLastName, YourTopic in the subject line. This helps greatly!

Name: _____________________ Date: _______ Section: __ A-08Accommodation

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1.Choose 1 scenario.2.Think of at least 2 ways to apply Universal Design.3.You may choose any of these scenarios.

The next slide includes a template you may use.

CURR 285-00, Firstname LastName, Lesson Accommodations, ThisSemester ThisYear

Lesson Plan Supplement: Accommodating Differences

Supplement to Lesson Plan: [Type the name of your lesson plan here]This class includes an identified need to accommodate…. [Describe the population in your class, as described In one of the 3 scenarios found on the previous slide.] Provide brief sentences. Make sure that your sentences are clear and complete. Use the spellchecker!

[Describing Strategy One]Use a few sentences to describe how you might apply Universal Design in your classroom, during your lesson, using an appropriate strategy. How does your strategy help your student(s) to learn?

[Describing Strategy Two]Use a few sentences to describe how you might apply Universal Design in your classroom during your lesson using another strategy. How does your strategy help your student(s) to learn?

Directions1. Edit this page template appropriately or use another format of your choice.2. There are 3 slides in this Powerpoint file. Delete the other 2 slides. 3. Notice that there are 3 headings. If you want, you may add a heading or two.4. Edit/replace the headings as well as the narrative text.5. Use clear and complete sentences.6. Use the spell checker. Tools => Spelling7. Add an appropriate image.8. Save this file to your USB flash drive, in the PPT folder as

lesson-plan-accommodations.ppt9. Print it out. 10. Expect to upload this file to your Taskstream account.

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