UDLMeeting the needs of all learners

EDUC 7109 – Dr. McPherson

Pamela Graydon

Spring 2014

What is Universal Design for Learning?

UDL is a design for

instruction and classroom

that includes all learners.

Inclusive education, or inclusion, has been globally recognized as a goal foreducational systems around the world (Curcic, 2009; Katz, 2012b).

Learning Environment

• A classroom that has students that are regular education, exceptional needs, and learning disabilities

• The teacher applies UDL principles to meet the needs of all students

• through differentiation

• through modification

• through rigor and engagement

• Traditionally, the teacher would use resources such as manipulatives, large print, flashcards, leveled readers, etc.

Three Principals of UDL

• Recognition

• How information is taught• Students make connections,

understand, and process.

• Strategy

• How students process information• Students ability to summarize

what they have learned

• Application of skills

• Affect

• How students apply new information• Engaging in real world scenarios

• Relating information

• Application becomes routine

Three Principals of UDL: What it means

• Recognition

• Multiple formats to represent information

• Strategy

• Provide practice• Guided

• Supported • Affect

• Leveled or scaffold instruction

• Provide incentives

• Student selected content

How does it work?Impact on Learning

• Collaboration

• Analysis of student interests, strengths,

and weaknesses

• Instructional strategies that provide

equal access to learning for every

student

Technology & UDL

“The use of digital technologies allows for the implementation of inclusive instructional strategies by providing multiple means of

representation, action and expression, and engagement, based on the Universal Design

Learning (UDL) framework.” (Pellerin, 2013).

Technology

Instructional Technology

Flexible content

Multiple media

Virtual

Engagement

Integration of technology can expand the way teachers present information meet the diverse needs in the classroom.

CAST ONLINE TOOLS

UDL BOOK BUILDER http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ Developing reading skills instruction for struggling readers

UDL LESSON BUILDER http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/ Create UDL lessons that will consider and removes barriers to learning

STRATEGY TUTOR http://cst.cast.org/cst/auth-login

Create integrated lessons for students in upper elementary age level students using research-based strategies

SOURCES

Katz, J. (2013). The Three Block Model of Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Engaging students in inclusive education. Canadian Journal Of Education, 36(1), 153-194.

Pellerin, M. (2013). E-inclusion in Early French Immersion Classrooms: Using Digital Technologies to Support Inclusive Practices That Meet the Needs of All

Learners. Canadian Journal Of Education, 36(1), 44-70.

CAST (CAST, Inc. 1999-2013). Retrieved from http://www.cast.org/index.html.