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
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