UDL Concept Map

Provide options for language, mathematical expressions, and symbols

Students all understand different things differently, we should assume that there is a universal understanding to anything

An important instructional strategy is to ensure that alternative representations are provided not only for accessibility, but for clarity and comprehensibility across all learners.

Provide options for perception

Provide options for comprehension

Learning is impossible if information is imperceptible to the learner

Teach learners how to transform accessible information into useable knowledge

Provide the same information through different modalities

providing information in a format that will allow for adjustability by the user

Comprehension is an active action and is based upon information processing skills

Provide options for physical action

Provide Multiple Means of Representation

textbooks and computers only provide limited interaction (turning the page and typing on the keyboard)

"Properly designed curricular materials provide a seamless interface with common assistive technologies through which individuals with movement impairments can navigate and express what they know"

Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression

Some students are better at writing stories, others are better at telling them, make sure all options are available

"It is important to provide alternative modalities for expression, both to the level the playing field among learners and to allow the learner to appropriately (or easily) express knowledge, ideas and concepts in the learning environment."

What is Universal Design of Learning

Provide options for expression and communication

Physical action

three main principles

UDL for the Educators

Teachers meet their goal of teaching students how to learn by creating a curriculum that can help all children at a young age

Provide options for executive functions

Executive functions allow learners to take advantage of their environment

"The UDL framework typically involves efforts to expand executive capacity in two ways: 1) by scaffolding lower level skills so that they require less executive processing; and 2) by scaffolding higher level executive skills and strategies so that they are more effective and developed."

Curricula

Points of UDL in schools for the students

Goals, Methods, Materials, and Assessments

Should reduce barriers

SPED 310

Should meet the needs of ALL learners

Teach student what they need to succeed in the real world

Should optimize all levels of challenge and support

Help student want to continue learning outside of a school setting

Provide Multiple Means of Engagement

UDL Concept Map

Teach students how to strategically learn

Provide options for recruiting interest

"learners differ significantly in what attracts their attention and engages their interest"

"have alternative ways to recruit learner interest, ways that reflect the important inter- and intra-individual differences amongst learners."

Sydney Beck

Provide options for self-regulation

it is also important to develop learners’ intrinsic abilities to regulate their own emotions and motivations.

"A successful approach requires providing sufficient alternatives to support learners with very different aptitudes and prior experience to effectively manage their own engagement and affect."

Provide options for sustaining effort and persistence

"Learners differ considerably in their ability to self-regulate" their attention span

"build the individual skills in self-regulation and self-determination that will equalize such learning opportunities"

Three primary Brain network

Recognition

Strategic

Affective