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Universal Design for Learning:Presenter’s Academy

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UDL Connect:

For Online Resources & discussions

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#UDL social media

CASTUDL CenterAIM Center

Use Twitter? Use #UDL in your tweets during the workshop!#UDLchat: 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 9-9:30pm ET

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Introductions

Grace Meogmeo@cast.org

How many years in education?

• Less than 2 years

• Between 3 and 10 years

• Over 10 years

• Over 20 years!

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Who traveled the furthest to get here today?

• Less than 5 miles, I practically live here!

• Between 5-15 miles

• Between 15-30 miles, but felt like farther!

• Over 30 miles, are you kidding me?!

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Where are you in your understanding about UDL?

1 = Just beginning, what does ‘UDL’ even stand for?

2 = I know what UDL stands for

3 = I have done presentations on UDL

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Getting to Know You Scavenger Hunt or Quadrant Partners

UDL Presenter Academy Goals

To support UDL Presenters as they begin to prepare, customize, and deliver the UDL workshop: UDL:

Addressing the Variability of ALL learners.

Day 1: UDL, Guidelines, hands-on

Day 2: Guidelines Continued, Featured Speaker, Lessons

Day 3: Lessons, Tools, Application, Featured Speaker, Planning for UDL

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“UDL: Addressing the Variability of All Learners” Goals

Day 1: Build background• To learn how UDL addresses challenges of

learner variability

Day 2: Application• To strategize how to apply UDL to practice• To build tools & resources

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Seen another way:

Build Background

UDL Guidelin

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Lesson Planning

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Seen another way:

VariabilityContext

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UDL in Practice

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This workshop: build awareness

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UDLA mindset for designing learning experiences

• all individuals can gain enthusiasm, knowledge, and skills for learning

• reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining high achievement standards for all

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What are your goals?

• For this workshop

• For your professional development

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Goal: to build collaboration around design

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RULES:

• Tallest freestanding structure

• Entire marshmallow on top• Use as much/little of the contents in bag (not the bag); can break,

cut…

Have fun, collaborate & be creative

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Individually, with Post Its:(2 min)

What is one success you noted?

What is one change you would make next time?

As a team, report one success & one change you would make.

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Watch the TED talk (optional)

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Why begin with this exercise?

• Goal driven

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UDL Core concept #1:Goals matter

Many goals: CCSS, district, lesson, department, WIDA…

• Share goals clearly, all understand

• Consider flexible means to reach goal (UDL)

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UDL Core Concept #2: Variability

Old view of learning:

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Variability

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UDL key concept #3: Context matters (environment)

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UDL: Goal, Variability, Context (environment)

What resonates? What new ideas

inspired? What applications

can be made?

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Discuss (write, type, draw, talk about, tweet, etc…)

• What resonated?

• Discuss how the goal, variability & context relate to either the shoe or Rubik’s cube.

Questions about 3 key concepts to UDL framework

Goals, Variability, Context

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