Universal Design of Learning

Joy Reid

SE: 501

June 27, 2014

UDL - Representation For ESL students - materials and strategies to incorporate

• Provide closed captions when viewing clips or documentaries.

• Provide materials in students language.

• Pre-Teach vocabulary- discuss words, meanings, use it in sentence, and show a picture.

• Show clips, pictures and artifacts of student native homes.

• Label shelves and items in native language throughout the classroom.

• Technology – Reading translator

Examples UDL Representation

UDL - Engagement

• A reading buddy- two students that take turns reading passages or pages from a book.

• A small group of students playing rhyming word or beginning sound bingo.

• Student listening to book on audio(with headphones), while reading along.

• Students playing literacy games on the computer such as http://www.starfall.com/

• Students give one another spelling drills, to prepare for upcoming spelling test.

Teaching strategies that engages students in literacy

Examples of UDL Literacy Engagement

UDL -Expression

• Allow students to make-up their own song to help them remember.

• Students will create and decorate their own multiplication chart. These charts will be laminated.

• Allow students to go on website that incorporates time tables gameshttp://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

• Give students manipulatives (triangles or cubes) allow then to create groups to find the correct product.

• Students will dance and sing to multiplication rap song.

Teaching Strategies to Learning Time Tables

Examples of UDL Multiplication Strategies through Expression

Reference Page• Iris Center (2013).Universal Design of Learning. Retrieved

from http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/udl/cresource/how-can-teachers-at-sycamore-middle-school-meet-the-educational-needs-of-all-of-their-students/udl_01/

•  Gargiulo, R.M. & Metcalf, D. (2013). Teaching in today’s inclusive classroom: A universal design for learning approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.