Design the experience utilising the UDL Guidelines
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘How to plan using UDL’
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Making a plan
Making a plan
Design your activity or experience, keeping the learners and the learning intention at the front of your thinking.
Then use the UDL Guidelines to help you refine the design.
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Draft the lesson plan
Draft the lesson plan
Design the learning experience.
Allow your knowledge of learners and the learning intention to influence your thinking.
- Clarify the objective or goal of the activity or lesson
- Identify how achievement of the goal will be measured
- Identify the range of teaching strategies you will use and the activity options you will offer
- Consider all the materials, tools you will use yourself and make available to students
- Consider how you will set up the physical and online learning environment.
Visual overview of applying UDL
Visual overview of applying UDL
Reflect on your design using the UDL guideline reflection questions.
If you are new to UDL, focus on the “access” guidelines only.
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Refine design
Refine design
Reflection questions
Reflection questions
Once you have a refined lesson plan, ask yourself:
- What specific barriers the design will address?
- What parts of the design focus on learner variability (e.g the choices being offered, the design of the environment for flexibility)?
- Which UDL guidelines or checkpoints are a focus in the design and why?
Useful resources
Useful resources
Start small: A UDL Q&A with Loui Lord Nelson
An interview with UDL facilitator Loui Lord Nelson, author of Design and Deliver. In this blog post she shares tips for getting started with UDL in your classroom.
Publisher: Brookes Publishing
Next steps
More suggestions for implementing the strategy “How to plan using UDL”:
Return to the guide “Universal Design for Learning”
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How to use this site
Guide to Index of the guide: Universal Design for Learning
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