How does Universal Design for Learning help teachers in real classrooms?
From pre-kindergarten to graduate school, classrooms usually include learners with diverse abilities and backgrounds, including students with physical, sensory, and learning disabilities, differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds, varied preferences and motivations for learning, students who are unusually gifted, and many others. Universal Design for Learning supports teachers’ efforts to meet the challenge of diversity by providing flexible instructional materials, techniques, and strategies that help teachers differentiate instruction to meet these varied needs. It does this by providing options for: • Presenting information and content in different ways (the “what” of learning) • Differentiating the ways that students can express what they know (the “how” of learning) • Stimulating interest and motivation for learning (the “why” of learning) A universally designed curriculum is designed from the outset to meet the needs of the greatest number of users, making costly, time-consum
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