UDL Principles

• To understand structure &

representation

• To consider applications to practice

Afternoon Goals:

David Rose presents the UDL Guidelines

UDL Guidelines: from research to practice

3 Networks

3 Principles

Identify & interpret patterns of sound, light, taste, smell, and touch

Recognition Network: “what of learning”

CAST 2012

Variability & Recognition networkCount how many times the players wearing white pass the basketball.

“We are designed to focus on whatever we are looking for.”

Jill Bolte Taylor, Stroke of Insight

Context & Recognition Network:What is this?

CAST 2012

Options for presenting information

• Customize display• Alternatives for auditory &

visual information

CAST 2012

Options for language & symbols

• Vocabulary, symbols• Cross-language supports• Multi-media

CAST 2012

• background knowledge• Highlight patterns• Maximize transfer

Options for comprehension

CAST 2012

Multiple Means of Representation

CAST 2012

Multiple Means of Representation

CAST 2012

Multiple Means of Representation

UDL Classroom Educator Worksheet

• Watch Cell Video

• Discuss evidence of practice from Recognition Network: how was context & lesson supportive of variability?

• Use UDL Guidelines: what could be improved?

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Use Representation Guidelines

UDL is a framework

• For thinking & reflecting about lessons• For addressing variability & context for

learning

• Goal of UDL: expert learners– Purposeful– Strategic– Engaged

Plan, execute, monitor actions & skills

Strategic Networks: “how of learning”

CAST©2008

Phineas Gage: frontal lobe

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