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How do you verify that every student has equal access to materials and learning experiences and is assessed accordingly?

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How do you verify that every student has equal access to materials and learning experiences and is assessed accordingly?

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University of Colorado School of Medicine

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Equity in Assessment by Dr. Tai Lockspeiser

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Guidance On Artificial Intelligence: How Your Students Can Correctly Reference AI Tools

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How do you assess student understanding while promoting a growth mindset?

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How do you assess student understanding while promoting a growth mindset?

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UDL and Assessment | An Introduction to UDL and Assessment

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How do you ensure that all students feel included and valued in your classroom?

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How do you ensure that all students feel included and valued in your classroom?

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Down Syndrome & Intellectual Disability Queensland

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How can you use Universal Design for Learning to make assessments fair for all students?

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How can you use Universal Design for Learning to make assessments fair for all students?

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How can we use UDL in Assessment? University of Limerick examples

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What strategies do you use to accommodate diverse learning needs and styles?

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What strategies do you use to accommodate diverse learning needs and styles?

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What challenges have you faced in promoting inclusivity, and how did you overcome them?

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What challenges have you faced in promoting inclusivity, and how did you overcome them?

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How do you involve parents and the community in creating an inclusive environment?

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How do you involve parents and the community in creating an inclusive environment?

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How do you modify your teaching to support students with varying needs and backgrounds? 

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How do you modify your teaching to support students with varying needs and backgrounds? 

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The ways you foster an environment of respect and appreciation for diverse perspectives among students.

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The ways you foster an environment of respect and appreciation for diverse perspectives among students.

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What role do counsellors or special education educators play in supporting students who require additional assistance?

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What role do counsellors or special education educators play in supporting students who require additional assistance?

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Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

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How do I ensure my assessments are equitable and inclusive for all students? Our students come to college from diverse contexts with variable experiences. Some students arrive with or develop physical and mental health challenges. Because of this, it is important to consider if our assessments are equitable and inclusive for all.

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) vs. Differentiated Instruction

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Supporting children and young people with SEN

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Supporting children and young people with SEN

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Inclusive Digital Safety | Supporting children with SEND online

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UDL is a framework to guide the design of learning environments that are accessible, inclusive, equitable, and challenging for every learner. Ultimately, the goal of UDL is to support learner agency, the capacity to actively participate in making choices in service of learning goals. The UDL Guidelines inform the design of learning environments to support learner agency that is:

Purposeful - internalized self-efficacy, acting in ways that are personally and socially meaningful.

Reflective - self-awareness and metacognition to identify internal motivations and external influences that support learning and make adjustments when necessary.

Resourceful - understanding and applying assets, strengths, resources, and linguistic and cultural capital.

Authentic - increasing comprehension and deepening understanding in ways that are genuine.

Strategic - setting goals and monitoring learning with intentionality and planfulness.

Action-oriented - self-directed and collective action in pursuit of learning goals.

Agency involves learners' ability to regulate their affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes as they interact within the learning environment (Code, 2020). Further, it is essential to consider how structural dynamics influence learner agency. Learners' ability to act as powerful agents relates to the structure of the learning community and the extent to which all voices, regardless of perceived status, are valued and able to contribute (Restani, 2021). Designing learning environments that support learner agency requires continually examining power dynamics by challenging structures that view the educator as the sole authority and creating space for learners to make sense of content individually and collectively through interaction and reflection. Further, supporting learner agency requires recognizing dimensions of culture and identity and examining where bias may be a barrier to learners being able to fully exercise their agency. UDL aims to change the design of the environment rather than to situate the problem as a perceived deficit within the learner. When environments are intentionally designed to reduce barriers, every learner can engage in rigorous, meaningful learning.

Navigate to the Research Pages to explore articles used to develop the goal of learner agency.

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