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Goals for afternoon

• To build your UDL ‘toolkit’

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Teacher reflections: MITS video

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Some teacher favorite ‘technology’ tools :

• Sticky notes• Colored pens• Piping tube for listening to self• Word • Rulers with ‘space’ for reading• Vimeo• VoiceThread• Animoto

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Share tool ideasAlign with UDL Guidelines

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Questions, Reflections?

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Break out sessions 1:30-2:25

• Affect and Engagement: Sami Daley

• Online & UDL: Yvonne Domings (also International)

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Share ideas from breakout sessions

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Quiet reflection

• Your goals, your professional learning

• Your next steps (‘Monday morning’)

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Where are you in your understanding about UDL?

1 = Just beginning!

2 = I know a little about UDL!

3 = Ask me anything about UDL: I could lead this session!

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How do you see UDL aligning?

• Differentiated instruction

• “Good” teaching

• Multiple intelligences…

• Other initiatives?

UDL and DI

• Proactive• Evaluates environment,

classroom, culture• Designs instruction

prior to arrival of students

• Focuses on Variability• Values Variety• Removes Barriers

• Reactive• Evaluates the student• Retrofits instruction• Focuses on individual

disability• Conforms to “normal”• Works around barriers

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Summary of workshop: Explore• Introduction to UDL: theory,

CAST

• Cornerstones of learning: variability, context

• UDL Guidelines

• UDL lesson design process: goals, flexibility & accessibility

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What’s UDL today?Options for Perception Options for Action &

ExpressionOptions for Engagement

Perception:Customize digital, Oral & PowerPoints, chart, videos

Physical Action:Write, type, discuss, do, activity, playdoh, stickies, tweet

Recruit interest:Breakout choice,Authentic: your lessons, opening activities & examples

Vocabulary:multiple media, many examples, highlight vocab

Expression & Communication:Additional resources in Notes, handouts scaffold, models

Effort and Persistence:Quadrants, keep goals clear, recognize process

Background: Classroom, teacher examples, UD

Executive function:Clear goalsAgenda, timer

Self Regulate:Reflection, next steps, strategize with colleagues, time for Q&A

What was UDL at this Institute?

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Dancing Leader

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Possible next steps:

• UDL Connect & Social Media

• More UDL: online, institutes–UDL & Lesson Design (Math, ELL, Science,

special sections)–UDL: Affect & Engagement Institute–UDL: Action & Expression Institute

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Evaluations