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Glenda Hanson, Legal Secretary/Legal Assistant Instructor, [email protected] Cathy Jenner, UDL Project Coordinator,
UDL Project Website: http://webs.rtc.edu/udl
Universal Design for Learning Strategies
You Can Use!
Our Questions:
What is UDL and how do you use UDL in designing your course?
Why does UDL and using brain based strategies work?
How can teachers use the right strategy to implement UDL and meet the needs of diverse students?
"Universal design seeks to encourage attractive, marketable products that are more usable by everyone. It is design for the built environment and consumer products for a very broad definition of user."- Ron Mace
1941-1998 Ron Mace, founder and program director of The Center for Universal Design, N.C.
Universal Design
1. Equitable in use 2. Flexibility in use 3. Simple and intuitive 4. Perceptible information 5. Tolerance for error 6. Low physical effort 7. Right size and space
for approach and use
1941-1998 Ron Mace, founder and program director of The Center for Universal Design, N.C.
“A computer on every desk in every home”
Computers: the
ultimate in
universal design?
How is UDL done? (7 Principles)
1.Accessible2.Consistent3.Flexible4.Explicit5.Supportive6.Minimizing
physical effort
7.Effective learning space
Video clip
Rest Your Brain
Pair and Share
Prime Time-Down Time
Reference David Sousa
Deg
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of R
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tion
Prime-time-2
Down-time
Prime-time-1
0 10 20 30 40 Time in Minutes
Build those neurons:Think, think, think
Attach new information to old
Scaffold
UDL and Brain Science
1. Use the senses
VisualAuditory
Kinesthetic
Who is your class? Computer Science Survey Results
14 --predominantly visual learners 9 – problems w/ time management 8 --recent major loss6 --history of absenteeism in
school5 --vision problems3 -- hearing problems2 --had LD in their families1 --had diagnosed LD1 --had been in Special Ed 15
2. Teach your students about their brains
YMCAIRSIBMTIVO
3. Meaning before details
4. Repetition and Rehearsal…
Repetition and Rehearsal….
Repetition and Rehearsal….
Repetition and Rehearsal
5. The brain needs rest
6. We need to learn how to learn
Making the implicit EXPLICIT
7. Emotion impacts learning
Rest Your Brain
Prime Time 2The Way the Brain Learns
Write a key word in each box or draw a diagram to help you remember the 7 ways the brain learns.
Prime Time 2
2. Teach brain
1.Multi- Sensory
4. Repeat3. Meaning
6. Explicit5. Rest
The Way the Brain LearnsWrite a key word in each box or draw a diagram to help you
remember the 7 ways the brain learns.
7. Emotion
How can teachers use the right strategy meet the needs of diverse students?
Before UDL:Learning Styles Activities
After UDL: Learning Styles
ActivitiesPLUS
Teaching using strategies
Teaching students how to use strategies
Modeling/scaffolding Making content
manageable
Contracts: Traditional
Lecture Reading Test
Contracts: the UDL way!
Kingo Mini-lectures using
PowerPoints and textbook
Fill-in blanks handouts
Reading and review questions
Video on contracts Group posters on
various terms Typed a contract
Internet activity—finding contracts and analyzing its parts and format and content
Quia games Round robins—review
questions and “what did you get”
Questions for Yotta
Notebook organization
Activity 1
Kingo—form of bingo using contract terms
Why it works . . . Uses senses—fits various learning
styles Attaches new information to old—
begins to build new information Emotion impacts learning—fun for
students
Activity 2
Why it works . . . Uses senses—fits various
learning stylesAttaches new information to oldFirst step in rehearsalBrain needs a restEmotion impacts learning —fun for students
Group posters using contract terms
Activity 3
Quia www.quia.com
Online activities like flash cards and matching using your terms
Why it works . . . Fits various learning styles—use
senses Repetition, repetition Brain needs a rest Emotion impacts learning—builds
confidence
Make Quia Lists Using Excel
Telephone Line
Let’s Share Activities!
Wrap Up: UDL Strategies and Success
Learning styles
Explicit instruction—graphic organizers
Modeling/scaffolding—activities
Making content manageable—Quia, Kingo, Posters, 7 brain processes
The morale of the story…
In order to USE the right strategy,
you gotta CHOOSE
the right strategy!
