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What do you know about Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
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Universal Design for Learning
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• To get a basic understanding of UDL:– Influences and concepts (what)– Learning variability (why)– Application and use (how)
• Understanding the relationship between UDL and the three brain networks (Affective, Strategic, and Recognition)
Our goals for today:
• Universal design for learning is a scientifically valid framework for guiding educational practice tha
(a) provides flexibility in the ways information is presented, in the ways students respond or demonstrate knowledge and skills, and in the ways students are engaged; and
(b) reduces barriers in instruction, provides appropriate accommodations, supports, and challenges, and maintains high achievement expectations for all students, including students with disabilities and students who are limited English proficient. Higher Education Opportunity Act
UDL: The Definition
• UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs
• a set of principles for
curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn.
UDL: The Framework
CUSTOMIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
PRINT AND ITS DISABILITIES
THE PROMISE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
“the myth of average”Individuals are continually shifting.
Individuals exist in relationship to the environment including the
classroom.
Variability is the rule, not the exception.Individual qualities or abilities are not static and fixed.
Variability and difference constitutes the norm from student
to student even among those who seem to share similar
characteristics of age, culture, level or success, race.
(Hall, Meyer, Rose, 2012)
Learner Variability
A quick variability example ...
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• National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard
• Higher Education Opportunity Act• Common Core State Standards Initiative• National Educational Technology Plan• UDL Bill• COMAR
UDL Policy
• OSEP UDL Toolkit• UDL in
– 2007 draft House NCLB bill– Higher Education Act of 2008– House/Senate LEARN ACT– Guidance on ARRA – National Educational Technology Plan– Administration’s Blue print for ESEA– OSEP Personnel Preparation Grants
Where is UDL in Federal Policy and Legislation?
The UDL Framework
The UDL Guidelines
What the PHYSICAL
SPACE looks like
What the TEACHERIs doing
What the STUDENT is doing
BIG IDEA:
Three Core Principles
Multiple Representations of the Guidelines
• National UDL Center - Examples and Resources
• UDL Interactive Wheel
• Low Tech Wheel
• UDLinks app (on android or apple device)
The Brain Networks
Complete Your Three Brain Networks.
UDL Tools: CAST BookBuilder
MSHA, October 2012
UDL Tools: iSolveIt App
MSHA, October 2012
http://isolveit.cast.org/home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbpRMkoNuY
UDL Tools: Science Writer
MSHA, October 2012
http://sciencewriter.cast.org/welcome;jsessionid=49AC32D0EA01E49264116FBEAB389068
UDL Tools: AT Match-Up Tool
MSHA, October 2012 http://marylandlearninglinks.org/3815
“Start with the goal and the content. What do you want to
teach?”- David Rose, CAST
UDL is not an all or nothing proposition
“Ultimately, what will separate new curricula from old is that they will reflect a new ecology for learning. That new ecology will put students at the center of the learning environment. And all students will not only learn, each in their own way; they also will teach. Every curriculum will not only teach, it will learn. In so doing, we will create an optimal ecology for learning, one in which the paths to learning are rich and diverse enough for all our students.”
-Rose and Gravel, 2012
Meet Dr. Katie Novak!
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Reflection
What the PHYSICAL
SPACE looks like
What the TEACHERIs doing
What the STUDENT is doing
• http://cast.org/• http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/login • http://bookbuilder.cast.org/• http://udlexchange.cast.org/home• http://www.udlcenter.org/
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