Universal Design For Learning UDL

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Universal Design For Learning (UDL)

• Valley Elementary
• January 19, 2009
• Lisa Andreasen
• Keystone AEA

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What is UDL?

• UDL The practice of embedding flexible
  strategies into the curriculum during the
  planning process so that ALL students can access
  a variety of learning solutions (cast.org)

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What is UDL (cont)?

• UDL shifts old assumptions about learning
• Students with disabilities fall along a continuum
  of learners rather than as a separate category
• Teacher adjustments will occur for all students,
  not just those with documented disabilities
• Curriculum materials will be varied and diverse
  and include electronic/digital resources rather
  than just centered around a textbook
• Rather than remediating students, the curriculum
  should be flexible to accommodate learner
  differences

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What is UDL (cont)?

• UDL is built on the premise that there is no one
  kind of learning
• Learning differs across task
• Learning differs across development
• Learning differs across individuals

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Designing Curriculum for UDL

• Teachers Provide
• Flexible ways of presenting lesson content
• Flexible options for student engagement
• Flexible methods of expression and assessment

• Students Have
• Options for how they receive content
• Choices which will engage student interest
• Choices for how they demonstrate their learning

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Multiple Means of Engagement

• Provide Learning Choices
• Audio/Visual/Hands-on
• Multimedia projects
• Webquests
• Project-based inquiry
• Email projects
• Cooperative learning projects

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Multiple Means of Presentation

• Visual presentations, eg United Streaming
• Enlarged print
• Audio text support, eg Kurzweil, Read and Write
  Gold, SOLO
• Multimedia presentations, eg iMovie, PowerPoint
• Internet links to background information
• Access to definitions, illustrations, sound files
  or pictures

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Multiple Means of Expression

• Graphic outlining tools
• Keyboarding with spelling supports
• Podcasting
• Multimedia tools PowerPoint, iMovie, Windows
  Moviemaker
• Product models
• Drawings
• Video or digital photo report
• Collages
• Graphs

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Examples of Flexible Materials

• PowerPoint Introduction to historical fiction
• Website interactive game on plant and animal
  classification
• Virtual manipulatives for 3D shapes
• Using MS Word tables to line up a fraction
  worksheet

http//www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hia
t/udl/elementary.shtm
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Examples of Assistive Technology

• Reading
• Color overlays
• Magnifying Bars
• Highlighters
• iPod/Podcasts
• Digital books
• Read and Write Gold
• Text Reader

• Math
• Coin-u-lator
• Fraction Calculator
• Talking Calculator
• Virtual Manipulatives
• Counters

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Examples of Assistive Technology

• Writing Spelling
• Talking Word Processors
• AlphaSmart/Neo
• Word Prediction
• SOLO
• Franklin Spellers
• Speech to Text
• Digital Voice Recorder

• Writing/Keyboarding
• Pencil grips
• Alternate size pens/pencils
• Specialty paper
• Alternate keyboards
• Inspiration/ Kidspiration

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Links of Interest

• http//www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org
• http//www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hia
  t
• http//www.cast.org/
• http//www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/toolkits/
  
• http//bookbuilder.cast.org/
• http//cst.cast.org/cst/auth-login
• http//udlselfcheck.cast.org/
• http//lessonbuilder.cast.org/
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/science/dictionar
  y/

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