UDL-PCG Webinar 3: Multiple Means of Action & Expression

April 23, 2013Grace Meo, Allison Posey

UDL Connect

• Resources from webinar• Power Point• Videos, links

Share one idea

• How have you used the highlights from session one?– Variability– Context– UDL Guideline 1: Multiple Means of

Representation

Goal for today:

• To become familiar with UDL Guideline 2: Multiple Means of Action & Expression

• To continue to discuss how concepts relate to your module work

‘Gorilla’ video

Goals are importantImpacts our perception

Challenge: many goals

• Common Core State Standards

• Content

• District

• Teacher

UDL & goals

• Are goals clearly stated & understandable?

Students will write about the stages of metamorphosis.

UDL & Goals

• Are the means embedded?– Do they need to be?– What flexibility & supports are there to reach the

goal?

Students will write about the stages of metamorphosis.

Given CCSS goal, how could you apply UDL Principle 1?

• ‘Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100. For example, rewrite 0.62

as 62/100; describe a length as 0.62 meters; locate 0.62 on a number line diagram.’

UDL Guidelines

• Use UDL Guidelines to provide flexible means for all learners to reach the goal

Think about your module goal(s)

• How can it be flexible & accessible for all learners (including teachers), recognizing that variability & context matter?

Beware of secondary goals!

Focus today: Principle 2

Plan, execute, monitor actions & skills

Strategic Networks: “how of learning”

CAST©2008

Phineas Gage: frontal lobe

Strategies: Tower of Hanoi

• Goal: move all the discs from the left to right without placing a large disc on a small disc

CAST 2012

Options for physical actions

• Vary methods of response• Provide access to tools &

assistive technology

CAST 2012

Options for expressive skills & fluency• Tools to communicate &

compose• Graduated levels of support

for practice

Consider GOAL:Drawing: ‘What is a pioneer’

Recording: ‘What is a pioneer?’

Student: ‘A pioneer is a person who has left their home to go West.’

Writing: ‘What is a pioneer?’

“A pioneer is a person that has chosen or is forced to leave their home. A pioneer leaves their home or cabin in a covered wagon. They didn’t have construction builders, so they would make everything out of nature. They would travel up and down mountains and up and down lakes, rivers, and

streams.”

Flexible means, tight goal

CCSS can help with the goalUDL Guidelines help with the means

options for perception, action, & engagement

What does this mean for you?How does this apply to your practice?

CAST 2012

Options for executive functions• Clear goals• Support planning &

monitoring process• Support information

managing

Importance of goals:

Review: 3 Brain Networks/Principles, 9 Guidelines with checkpoints

‘Tell me more’

Reflect

• What strategies do you already use that support this Principle?

• How might this apply to your work with the CCSS and the 1% population?

CAST 2012

What strategies are used?

UDL Guidelines:• Don’t have to do them all

• Often supporting one guideline will support another

• Variability is rule, make options available for all

• Next session:– UDL Principle 3: Multiple Means of Engagement– Ties to your work