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Design learning to meet the diverse and variable needs of all students in your classroom.
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- Understand
- Find out about UDL
- Provide multiple means of Engagement
- Provide multiple means of Representation
- Provide multiple means of Action and Expression
- How to plan using UDL
- Design considerations in primary settings
- Design considerations in secondary settings
- Design considerations in NCEA assessments
- Key resources
Why UDL is valuable
Learn about how UDL can help us realise the vision of The New Zealand Curriculum.
An introduction to UDL and how it can help us realise the vision of The New Zealand Curriculum.
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Find out about UDL
Learn about the key concepts, origins and science behind UDL.Shared understandings will help you share and reflect on practice with colleagues.
UDL is not a special ed thing or even a general ed thing.
It’s just an ed thing.
It is a way to connect every student to the learning experience, and a way at looking at learning that is fully inclusive and promotes success for all learners, regardless of ability.
Mike Marotta
Source: Tips, tricks and tools to build your inclusive classroom through UDL (opens in a new tab/window)
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-08-13-tips-tricks-and-tools-to-build-your-inclusive-classroom-through-udl?utm_source=EdSurgeInstruct&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08-16-2018&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpRM1pEVXlNMlU0TmpRNCIsInQiOiJlMzM1cngwSXZTd1RYbWdZSElyQUtxMyt
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Strategies for action
Key strategies to support planning with UDL.
Design multiple means of Engagement
This principle and its three guidelines support the design of learning environments that are safe, relevant, and support learners’ motivation, perseverance and resilience.
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Design options for welcoming interests
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Design options for sustaining effort
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Design options for emotional capacity
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Design multiple means of Representation
The Representation principle and its three guidelines support the design of information that is accessible and supports understanding.
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Design options for language and symbols
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Design options for building knowledge
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Design multiple means of Action and Expression
This principle and its three guidelines support the design of learning environments that are inclusive of varying forms of action and expression.
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Design options for interaction
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Design options for strategy development
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How to plan using UDL
Use this human-centred approach to planning. Apply in any context to guide the inclusive design of an activity, lesson, event, hui or process.
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Create barrier-free goals and objectives
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Consider universal supports and useful options
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Design considerations in primary settings
As you begin to explore UDL, reflect on these five areas of curriculum design. To support your thinking, each area has been illustrated with provocations and questions.
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Reflect on your inclusive design in these five areas.
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Prepare environments for flexibility
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Refine and support goal setting
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Match teaching methods to student preferences
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Ensure materials are flexible and accessible
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Design assessments to enable students to demonstrate their understanding
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Design considerations in secondary settings
As you begin to explore UDL, reflect on these five areas of curriculum design.To support your thinking, each area has been illustrated with provocations and questions.
Reflect on your inclusive design in these five areas.
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Prepare environments for flexibility
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Refine and support goal setting
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Match teaching methods to student preferences
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Ensure materials are flexible and accessible
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Design assessments to enable students to demonstrate their understanding
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Design considerations in NCEA assessments
UDL can help create a more inclusive NCEA experience for ākonga.Use these suggestions alongside the tools on NCEA Education to enhance your practice in inclusive assessment design.
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UDL is an approach that helps us anticipate barriers to learning and build in useful supports and options that can be offered to all.
Source: Ministry of Education
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Identify barriers and supports
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Promote equity of access to supports
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Prepare for externally assessed standards
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Key resources
UDL and the Learning Brain
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A rationale for UDL based on findings from neuroscience.
Publisher: CAST (2024)
About Universal Design for Learning
An introduction to UDL by the founders of the framework.
Universal Design for Learning: Theory and practice (multimedia version)
Free multimedia information and teacher stories. User will need to login on first visit. Developed by CAST's founders Anne Meyer and David H. Rose, along with David Gordon.
What learning coaches need to know about UDL
A series of videos designed to support learning coaches in creating a deeper understanding of UDL: what it is, why it matters, and how it might be used to support the learning of all students.
Publisher: The Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC)
UDL Strategies
This online resource provides suggestions and resources aligned to the UDL framework. Each checkpoint in the guidelines has a photo and description.
Publisher: Enome Inc
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How to use this site
Guide to Index of the guide: Universal Design for Learning
Understand:
- Why UDL is valuable
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Find out about UDLShow suggestions for Find out about UDL
Strategies for action:
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Provide multiple means of EngagementShow suggestions for Provide multiple means of Engagement
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Provide multiple means of RepresentationShow suggestions for Provide multiple means of Representation
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Provide multiple means of Action and ExpressionShow suggestions for Provide multiple means of Action and Expression
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How to plan using UDLShow suggestions for How to plan using UDL
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Design considerations in primary settingsShow suggestions for Design considerations in primary settings
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Design considerations in secondary settingsShow suggestions for Design considerations in secondary settings
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Design considerations in NCEA assessmentsShow suggestions for Design considerations in NCEA assessments
