This presentation is focused on the learner. Each day we face a classroom of diversity and it is our job as educators to find ways to educate our youth in order to prepare them for the future. Universal Design for Learning is the key to the success of our students.

2.  It’s an instructional approach that opens
up learning opportunities for ALL
students.

3. “The concept of
UDL was inspired by
 Examples of UDL
the universal design Inspiration~
movement in
architecture. This
movement calls for
the design of
structures that
anticipate the
needs of individuals
with disabilities and
accommodate
these needs from
the outset” (Hall,
Strangman, &
Meyer, 2011).

4.  Builds maximum
flexibility into the
curriculum.
 Gives every students
the opportunity to
learn (Laureate
Education, Inc.,
2009).

5.  Principle I: Provide Multiple Means of Representation
(the “what” of learning)
 Principle II: Provide Multiple Means of Action and
Expression (the “how” of learning)
 Principle III: Provide Multiple Means of Engagement
(the “why” of learning) (CAST, 2011)

6.  Provide information to students utilizing
the different learning modalities.
 Provide mnemonic devices.
 Provide options for students to apply
meaning to a concept.
 Present information through different
perceptions.

7.  Provide material in which all students
can interact with.
 Provide different way for response,
selection, and composition.
 Set long term goals and provide
opportunities for everyone to reach
those goals.
 Provide students opportunities to
become owners of their own learning.

8.  Provide multiple opportunities to actively
engage students.
 Provide meaning to the curriculum
where students can activate prior
knowledge to create a connection with
the content.

9.  Utilizing technology in the classroom
provides meaningful and engaging
instruction in the classroom. It offers
flexibility to display and mark content
(Laureate Education, Inc., 2009).
 Technology provides authentic learning
experience that meets all learning
modalities.

10.  Electronic versions of textbooks
 Captioned/narrated video
 Spell check and Thesaurus
 Talking dialogue and voice recognition
 Computer sources such as Compass
Learning, V-Math Voyager, Study Island,
BrainPop, United Streaming, and Pearson
Math.
 Kidspiration/Inspiration for organizing
content

11. Utilizing UDL in the
classrooms within my
school will provide a
meaningful learning
experience. If
teachers in my
building use UDL as
way to create lessons,
students will be
challenged, actively
engaged, and
become
academically
successful. This will all
be due to the idea
that students are
learning information Creates our future
through their own
learning modality.

12. The brain is one
big integrated
network, but for
convenience we
only think of three
different grouping
with in that
network:
1. Recognition
2. Strategic
3. Affective

13. Networks in the brain that enable us to identify
and understand information, ideas, and
concepts; networks specialized to sense and
assign meaning to patterns we see, hear, taste,
touch, and smell.
Allows us to make connections with the visual,
auditory, and kinesthetic learner. This is where
we must provide multiple opportunities for kids
to take in and process information.
It’s how we gather what we see, hear, and
read. (Alblett, Bellizzi, Byers, Cove, Dobrusin,
Hanke, Koopmans, Newcomb, & Snitzer, 2005)
Examples of Recognition Networks are :
Identify letters, words, pictures, tastes, smells,
roads, content, utilize graphic organizers,
multimedia texts,

14. The axons leave and go out to the
muscles to process actions and
plans. This is where students need to
be able have different outlets to
express themselves.
Examples of the Strategic Network
are:
Running, shooting baskets, making
plans to design something, write an
essay, work out a math problem,
conducting an experiment using the
scientific method.

15. Focuses on how to get the learner
engaged and remain motivated. It is
about the emotional aspect and being
able to evaluate their learning process.
Students need to be provided with
different avenues to be engaged in the
curriculum.
Examples of the Affective Network are:
Challenge students
Get them excited about learning
Provide interest that will motivate them to
want to learn.

16. “Technology, in particular digital media, makes UDL implementation practical
and achievable in a diverse classroom. Digital materials make it possible for
the same material to be flexibly presented and accessed—even adapted on
a student-to-student basis” (Hall, Strangman, & Meyer, 2011)

17. http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/
This website is a great source to create lessons that
differentiate instruction and meet the needs of every
learner.
http://www.cast.org/learningtools/book_builder/inde
x.html
This website allows teachers to create their own book
digitally. Teachers can edit and create their very
own reading material and it can be utilized for ages
three and up. This would be a wonderful tool at the
elementary school level in which I work.
http://www.cast.org/learningtools/strategy_tutor/ind
ex.html
As a 5th grade math and science teacher, I conduct
quite a bit of research in my classroom. This website
will enable my students to read, research, collect,
and comprehend the information that sometimes
may overwhelm them better

18. Alblett, E., Bellizzi, D., Byers, j., Cove, S., Dobrusin, M., Frey, A., , Hanke, J., Koopmans, R.,
Newcomb, J., & Snitzer, C. (2011). Universal Design for Learning for the Middle
School Classroom. Retrieved on November 20, 2011, from
http://udlforlearning.wikispaces.com/.
CAST Teaching Every Students.(2011). UDL Solutions finder. Retrieved on November 20, 2011, from
http://www.cast.org
Hall, T. , Strangman, N., & Meyer, A. (2011). Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL
Implementation. National Center on Accessible Instructional Material. Retrieved on November 20, 2011,
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