Universal Design for Learning

The goal of UDL is...

• to improve access, participation, and achievement by removing barriers to learning.

• to value the diversity of learners.

• to develop expert learners who can achieve regardless of their differences.

• All of the above are goals of UDL.

UDL is designed to meet the needs of...

• students who are at risk.

• English language learners.

• students with disabilities

• highly gifted students

• all students

What are the 3 UDL Principles?

• Action, Expression and Learning

• Understanding, Developing and Learning

• Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression

• Representation, Assessment, and Learning Targets

Allowing students to create songs, play murals, or videos to demonstrate what they have learned from reading a novel is an example of Multiple Means of ________________________.

• Engagement

• Action & Expression

• Representation

In a unit on rhyme, the teacher allows students to pick their favorite poems or songs to identify rhymes. This is an example of Multiple Means of ______________.

• Engagement

• Action & Expression

• Representation

True or False: The goal of providing multiple means of engagement is to enhance student involvement.

• True

• False

True or False: UDL has the potential to impact academic opportunities for a few students.

• True

• False

True or False: UDL helps identify the one right way to teach a lesson because there is one type of "expert learner."

• True

• False

It is essential to look at the true goal of a lesson. Determine the goal of this activity: "The learner will color each feather of a numbered pilgrim hat based on the coded answers to single-digit multiplication problems."

In what way could traditional text present a barrier to learners?

• Traditional printed text requires vision.

• Traditional printed text requires decoding skills.

• Both A & B