Planning a lesson, using the UDL framework, is a process that requires clear definition of four fundamental components: Goals; Assessments; Methods; Materials (Meyer et al., 2014). Figure 2. UDL Cycle of instructional planning (based on Rao & Meo, 2016). The planning process, of course, begins with a definition of what Read more…
As we have seen, Universal Design principles can be applied to many environments, products, and services, including learning environments, resources, and methods of instruction. Recognizing the diversity of ways in which everyone learns, learning theories have been developed, such as multiple intelligences by the teacher and psychologist Howard Gardner that largely Read more…
Teaching a diverse group of students requires the move from a “one size fits all” approach to education, where it was the student that had to comply with the teacher’s way of teaching, to a new way of addressing diversity in the classroom. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an Read more…