Universal Design for Learning
  • Welcome!
  • Learning By Design: MSET/Common Ground 2013
  • Historical Foundations
    • Universal Design in Action
    • UDL: A Paradigm Shift
    • UDL in our lives
  • Brain Networks
    • Meet your Brain
    • Brain Rules
    • Three Brain Networks>
      • Recognition Network
      • Strategic Network
      • Affective Network
      • Brain Networks Activity
    • UDL and Learner Variability
    • Reading, Technology and the Brain
  • Teaching Students in the Margins
    • Do you have a disabled curriculum?
    • Principles of Mind
  • UDL Guidelines
    • What are the UDL Guidelines?
    • Principle I: Representation>
      • Multiple Means of Representation in Music
    • Principle II: Action and Expression
    • Principle III: Engagement
    • UDL Guidelines in Practice
    • Reviewing a Science Lesson for UDL Principles and Guidelines
    • Tools for Guidelines and Checkpoints
  • Barriers to Learning
    • Barriers to Learning- Goals
    • Barriers to Learning- Materials
    • Barriers to Learning- Methods
    • Barriers to Learning- Assessments
    • Lesson Evaluation and Redesign
    • Teacher Spotlight: Barriers
    • Barriers to Learning: Sample Redesigns
  • The Common Core and UDL
  • UDL Exemplars
  • Engaging Students Using Technology
    • Problem Solving and Curiosity
    • Digital Learning
    • Creativity and Learning
    • Blooms and Web 2.0 Tools
    • Favorite Tools
  • Resources for Professional Development

Planning with UDL

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Planning with UDL in mind allows teachers to remove potential barriers in the goals, materials, methods, and assessments that are part of a unit of study and individual lessons.

Designing instruction that includes multiple means of representation, multiple means of action and expression of learning, and multiple means of engagement reduces these barriers to learning. In this activity, you will investigate barriers to learning and ways to reduce these barriers in the curriculum.

Let’s examine the UDL Center’s website. Select the link to read an overview of how UDL provides all students equal opportunities to learn.

As you read, think about the connections between each of the three brain networks, the principles of UDL, and the components of a UDL curriculum.

Discussion Questions:
  1. How do flexible approaches provide equal opportunities to learn?
  2. How do flexible approaches reduce barriers to learning?

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