UDL Entry Event:

Watch this video about the power of removing barriers to learning.

Explore UDL:

Check out these two approaches to teaching the chemistry lesson on Limiting Reagents.

Traditional Lesson	UDL Lesson

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Essential Elements in a UDL Lesson:

Choice, Challenge, Novelty
Connected, relevant learning
Multiple ways to represent information
Alternatives to text
Support for text comprehension
Flexible technology-based materials, strategies and tools
Mechanism for rapid response to learners; feedback
Multiple ways for students show what they know
Active student-centered methods
Conspicuous support for learning new strategies

More about Universal Design For Learning:

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework that guides the development of flexible learning environments, instructional materials, curricula, and educational activities so that they are achievable and challenging for students with a wide range of abilities and needs. UDL is a research-based approach to teaching, learning and assessment that draws on research in the learning sciences, and new media technologies to respond to individual learner differences and interests.