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DI also known as different instruction offers teachers the to have flexibility, providing activities, assess students to meet the required needs. The components are products, content and process created off of teacher plans, instructions and individual skills of each student.

Differentiated Instruction's core goal is to make learning accessible for all students by recognizing learners differences in terms of interests and readiness. But in order to address these differences, teachers need to make instructional decisions based on formal and informal data related to the specific students in a classroom.

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1. Introduce your objective. Provide context with a brief sentence. Tell survey takers why you're asking these questions and how their feedback will help. For example, say "Your feedback will help us understand how which services are most important to you."

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Demographics research

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3 quick tips to improve survey response rates

Here are some ideas to ensure that respondents will answer your surveys.

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Extracting specific data points isn't always easy. To get actionable and reliable data, we provide you with sound survey methodology, useful question types, and expert-certified survey templates. Then we give you tons of ways to send surveys, track responses, and cutting-edge tools for analyzing results.

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The Seven Principles of Universal Design

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The Seven Principles of Universal Design

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Principle 1: Equitable Use
The design is useful and marketable to people with diverse abilities.

Principle 2: Flexibility in Use
The design accommodates a wide range of individual preferences and abilities.

Principle 3: Simple and Intuitive Use
Use of the design is easy to understand, regardless of the user's experience, knowledge, language skills, or current concentration level.

Principle 4: Perceptible Information
The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user's sensory abilities.

Principle 5: Tolerance for Error
The design minimizes hazards and the adverse consequences of accidental or unintended actions.

Guidelines:

Principle 6: Low Physical Effort
The design can be used efficiently and comfortably and with a minimum of fatigue.

Principle 7: Size and Space for Approach and Use
Appropriate size and space is provided for approach, reach, manipulation, and use regardless of user's body size, posture, or mobility

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Systematic approach to teaching is a network of elements/parts different from each other but performs a unique function for life and effectiveness. Universal design classrooms can benefit all and any kind of learner.

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Schools offer many options to diverse groups of learners so individual students can have equal opportunities to learn from the start. By offering different ways of perceiving information for them to learn from.

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UDL provides not just equal access to learning and access to information. Allowing teachers to monitor learning process, there is no one method of presentation or expression for learners.

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If you read the latest books and blogs on inclusive education, you've probably heard a lot about the potential benefits of universal design for learning (UDL). Stronger student engagement. Sharper executive function skills. Increased access to the general curriculum for all students.

The UDL framework holds such great promise-but with so many myths and misconceptions floating around, those three letters can seem a little mysterious. What is UDL, really? Is it just differentiation in disguise?

To answer these questions, let's check in with UDL expert Loui Lord Nelson, whose book is making a big splash in the world of inclusive education. In Design and Deliver , Nelson takes on 6 stubborn myths about UDL and debunks them one by one. Whether you're a newbie weighing the benefits of implementing UDL in your own classroom or a UDL devotee hoping the change the minds of skeptics, this post gives you the fast facts you need to move forward.

[INFOGRAPHIC: Grab and share the infographic version of these 6 mythbusters below this post!]

MYTH #1: UDL has no research behind it.

FACT: The UDL framework is solidly grounded in brain research and other empirical data. (To see the research behind UDL principles, guidelines, and checkpoints, explore the National UDL Center's archive of articles .)

Quantifying the positive effects of UDL is a little challenging: though UDL guidelines stay the same, implementation will look different from school to school based on each teacher's knowledge and available resources. But early UDL research has been promising. In two recent studies, Nelson points out, students performed better on standardized measures when they used resources designed with the UDL framework-and had teachers who used UDL guidelines to craft their lessons and design the classroom environment.

MYTH #2: UDL is another word for differentiation.

FACT: Differentiation is just one component of UDL. Nelson describes the difference this way: Differentiation is a strategy that helps you address each student's individual levels of readiness, interest, and learning profiles. UDL is an overarching approach that addresses the environment first, including the physical location and the lesson, unit, and/or curriculum. When you address the whole environment up front, you make sure all students have full access to everything in the classroom, regardless of their needs and abilities.

MYTH #3: UDL is only good to use when you have students with IEPs.

FACT: It's true that UDL grew out of accommodating the individual needs of students with disabilities. But because every student is a variable learner, UDL is a helpful framework to use in any classroom, especially one that includes students of all ability levels. When you design your lessons based on the UDL framework, you create an accessible learning environment where all of your students have the best chance to learn.

MYTH #4: If you purchase a UDL product, then you're doing UDL.

FACT: UDL isn't something you buy or "do"; it's a set of principles and guidelines to use as a decision-making framework. True UDL implementation begins with the learning environment first-creating a classroom and lesson plans that meet all students' needs. UDL-aligned products and strategies can be valuable tools, but they're just a part of your journey toward UDL implementation, not a one-stop solution.

MYTH #5: UDL is just good teaching.

FACT: A person implementing UDL might be described as a good teacher-that part is definitely true! But simplifying UDL as "good teaching" is misleading. Good teaching has no single, agreed-on definition, whereas UDL is a framework with clear principles, guidelines, and checkpoints. Teachers who work hard to include all children in their classrooms and remove barriers to learning are doing a lot of things right, but unless they're referencing the UDL framework to make decisions, they aren't implementing UDL.

MYTH #6: To make UDL work, you have to use technology.

FACT: Tech can be a great way to enhance lessons and engage students. But if your school doesn't have the funds for fancy technology, that doesn't mean UDL is out of your reach. "For centuries teachers have used the resources available to communicate ideas to students," Nelson says. "UDL helps teachers look at available resources and potentially identify new ways to use them."

Nelson suggests that teachers collaborate with peers to identify no-tech or low-tech options that support students' learning outcomes. (A good place to start is #udlchat on Twitter, a hashtag for sharing UDL tips and tricks. UDL experts also use the hashtag for a regularly scheduled professional development chat-check #udlchat for the date and time of the next one!)

What do you think? Have you heard any other stubborn UDL myths? What's the #1 misconception most people have about UDL? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

is an amazing UDL primer. Check out the reviews and sample a chapter .

Here's a neat infographic that sums up the key points in this post. Share it around and help spread the word about UDL (click twice to view at full size):

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If you read the latest books and blogs on inclusive education, you've probably heard a lot about the potential benefits of universal design for learning (UDL). Stronger student engagement. Sharper executive function skills. Increased access to the general curriculum for all students. The UDL framework holds such great promise-but with so many myths and misconceptions [...]

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UDL does not remove academic challenges away from students it is designed to remove small barriers in a flexible way to teach.

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When applying UDL principles to lesson and curriculum, educators can make decisions about a range of methods, materials, needed to scaffold and support learning for all learners. UDL helps to build student independence.

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UDL framework can assist anyone who has plans, lessons or units of study. By using goals, methods, materials, and assessments to reduce barriers, as well as optimize levels of challenges to meet the needs of all learners from the start.

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With the growth of general education classrooms to meet each students needs universal design is the perfect solution. UDL is a curriculum and instruction that includes alternatives for those of different backgrounds, learning preference and abilities. Initially designed by architects, UDL is a flexible curriculum of materials and activities, where students can receive an equal access of information.