This week we have been learning about Universal Design for Learning. This concept basically asks a teacher to go back through their curriculum and strip it down and examine it in the context of its ability to reach every student. How can we identify and then eliminate barriers to learning within our curriculum? What new information, technology or delivery method can we employ to allow all of our students to benefit from the knowledge we have to give them. Maybe we need to present the same lesson three different ways over the course of a week to ensure that the concept is caught by all our students.
We examined the UDL checklist and saw how this tool can give us a framework for examining our lessons. As a practical exercise, I took a lesson plan that I recently created and looked at it in light of the UDL checklist. Take a look at the lesson plan and the comments that I made in response to the checklist. The UDL checklist is reproduced at the bottom of the lesson plan to tie he comments together.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SAXEFq1P7ybE9NH0JIv_do_TEtLsyZrw6VcqOzArKbo/edit
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