Posted on April 14th, 2008 by gmeo
Expert learners are:
1. Strategic, goal-directed learners. They formulate plans for learning, devise effective strategies and tactics to optimize learning; they organize resources and tools to facilitate learning; they monitor their progress toward mastery; they recognize their own strengths and weaknesses as learners; and they abandon plans and strategies that are ineffective.
2. Resourceful, knowledgeable learners. [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by gmeo
The UDL Guidelines are organized according to the three main principles of UDL that address representation, expression, and engagement. For each of these areas, specific “Checkpoints” for options are highlighted, followed by examples of practical suggestions.
Like UDL itself, these Guidelines are flexible and should be mixed and matched into the curriculum as appropriate. The UDL [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by gmeo
UDL is based upon the most widely replicated finding in educational research: students are highly variable in their response to instruction. In virtually every report of research on instruction or intervention, individual differences are not only evident in the results, they are prominent. Rather than treat these individual differences as irrelevant (or even annoying) sources [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by gmeo
The usual process for making existing curricula more accessible is adaptation of curricula—and especially instructional materials and methods—so that they are more accessible to students. Often, teachers themselves are forced to make heroic attempts to adapt curricular elements that were not designed to meet the learning needs of diverse students. The term “universal design” is [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by gmeo
General education curricula are often disabled in the following ways:
1. They are disabled in WHO they can teach. Curricula are often not conceived, designed or validated for use with the diverse populations of students which actually populate our classrooms. Students “in the margins”—those with special needs or disabilities, those who are “gifted and talented,” those [...]
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