UDL by Leah Russell

Recognize Expectations, Beliefs, and Motivations

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:43:51 UTC

Provide support for dealing with emotions as well as providing activities that support self-reflection. Students can set personal goals and believe those goals can be met.

Optimize Choice and Autonomy

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:44:41 UTC

Allow students to have a choice in tasks to increase engagement and independence. This can be done by giving students tools that are beneficial for them or collaborating with others.

Optimize Relevance, Value, and Authenticity

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:45:50 UTC

Incorporate interesting content and learning opportunities that enhances students' imagination. Provide tasks that allows students to experiment and participate.

Nurture Joy and Play

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:46:26 UTC

Allow students to learn through play and exploration. Encourage playfulness and allow learners to be proud of their accomplishments.

Address Biases, Threats, and Distractions

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:47:12 UTC

Teachers need to create a comfortable environment where they address issues that can harm students' education. They also are people to incorporate students' interests into their learning to keep them motivated and engaged.

Clarify the Meaning and Purpose of Goals

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:48:32 UTC

Help students understand the meaning behind their goals and why they are important. Help students achieve these goals as well.

Optimize Challenge and Support

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:49:10 UTC

Provide challenges in a variety of ways to encourage deeper thinking and engagement. It is important to have high expectations in the classroom, but to also make sure they have the tools needed to meet those expectations.

Foster Collaboration, Independence, and Collective Learning

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:50:00 UTC

Encourage students to work with their peers and explore other's ideas/opinions. When creating groups, make sure to establish expectations.

Foster Belonging and Community

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:51:03 UTC

It is important that students feel like they belong in the classroom and are part of a community. They need to feel comfortable enough to share their own ideas and not create barriers.

Offer Action-Oriented Feedback

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:52:29 UTC

Teachers need to be aware of the type of feedback they are giving to students based on what is needed to encourage motivation and effort.

Develop Awareness of Self and Others

16leahk — 2025-05-03 01:59:16 UTC

Allow students to learn how to process their emotions by using models and real life situations. Reflect on their strengths and challenges to assist them in learning how to process their emotions.

Promote Individual and Collective Reflection

16leahk — 2025-05-03 02:27:19 UTC

Allow students to reflect on themselves educationally and emotionally. Help them see that they are making progress towards a goal and help develop their emotional capacity.

Guideline: Welcoming Interests and Identities

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-03 13:05:48 UTC

It is important to recognize students' differences in the classroom as well as incorporate their interests to keep them engaged in their learning.

Guideline: Sustaining Effort and Persistence

16leahk — 2025-05-04 01:42:09 UTC

Learning is a lifelong process that takes a lot of effort and motivation. Teachers need to provide support to students as well as challenges and feedback when needed.

Guideline: Emotional Capacity

16leahk — 2025-05-04 01:46:21 UTC

Students learn, complete tasks, and express their knowledge in different ways. It is important that teachers think of this in instruction and provide different opportunities for students.

Cultivate Empathy and Restorative Practices

16leahk — 2025-05-04 01:50:15 UTC

It is important to build good relationships with students and listen to them when they need it. They need a comfortable environment to learn in

Guideline: Perception

16leahk — 2025-05-04 01:58:28 UTC

If students do not understand the way information is presented, they are not able to learn the information. Teachers need to make sure to present information in different ways for a group of diverse learners.

Support Opportunities to Customize the Display of Information

16leahk — 2025-05-04 02:01:03 UTC

Change the way material is presented. Add in images or change fonts to keep students engaged, and help them better understand what they are learning. Format information in a way that is beneficial for students.

Support Multiple Ways to Perceive Information

16leahk — 2025-05-04 02:04:23 UTC

Not all students perceive images the same way. It's important to also include sound and text into materials for students that are visually disabled.

Represent a Diversity of Perspectives and Identities in Authentic Ways

16leahk — 2025-05-04 02:06:45 UTC

It is important that teachers incorporate different cultures into their lessons and how they can relate to different cultures. If students are not exposed to different perspectives, they will gain a false understanding of diversity.

Guideline: Language and Symbols

16leahk — 2025-05-04 02:32:24 UTC

Students understand information in different ways. Some students may find a symbol more beneficial than words or vice versa. Information should be presented in a variety of ways for every student to understand.

Clarify Vocabulary, Symbols, and Language Structures

16leahk — 2025-05-04 02:35:20 UTC

When teachers are explaining words, symbols, or numbers to students they need to associate them with something students will recognize. Explain them using different relationships and representations.

Support Decoding of Text, Mathematical Notation, and Symbols

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 18:46:13 UTC

Students need to be exposed to symbols often in order to understand what they mean. It is important to offer options that the decrease barriers for students that may struggle.

Cultivate Understanding and Respect Across Languages and Dialects

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 18:49:34 UTC

Students that are learning English do not have the same access to resources in their language. It is important that teachers recognize their language is important and represented in the classroom.

Address Biases in the Use of Language and Symbols

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 18:52:47 UTC

Since English is the dominant language in the US, those that do not speak English are looked down upon. It is important that different content is offered in different languages so students feel as though they belong in the classroom.

Illustrate Through Multiple Media

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 18:54:18 UTC

Text should not be the only mode of representation in the classroom. By providing pictures or videos, information can be easier to understand and more relatable.

Guideline: Building Knowledge

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 19:38:11 UTC

Students that collaborate with their peers foster deeper understanding and builds knowledge. Students need to be exposed to multiple representations of information.

Connect Prior Knowledge to New Learning

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 20:53:08 UTC

Information is easier to understand when there is previous knowledge provided. If students cannot understand previous information, they will be able to understand the new information either. Make sure to link the information together for it to make sense.

Highlight and Explore Patterns, Critical Features, Big Ideas, and Relationships

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 21:01:42 UTC

In order to be successful in learning, one must know what is critical information and what is unimportant. Students are able to do this once they grow their understanding. It is important that teachers prompt students so they are able to practice this.

Cultivate Multiple Ways of Knowing and Making Meaning

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 21:07:28 UTC

Education should include different insights and perspectives of the world to create an inclusive environment where everyone is represented. Good quality learning materials are full of different strategies to build knowledge.

Maximize Transfer and Generalization

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 21:12:26 UTC

Students need to be able to transfer prior knowledge to new topics they are learning. Prompt students to use strategies that help them use their prior knowledge.

Guideline: Interaction

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 21:23:24 UTC

Text is not always the best way to present material. Learning spaces can also prevent students from learning the best way, so it is important to design materials and environments that are going to be beneficial for a diverse group of learners.

Vary and Honor the Methods for Responsive, Navigation, and Movement

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 21:26:48 UTC

It is important to keep the learning process flexible. Allow students to work with their hands and body to learn as well as providing different responses to their effort.

Optimize Access to Accessible Materials and Assistive and Accessible Technologies and Tools

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 21:32:28 UTC

When providing students tools to use in their learning, it is important that teachers provide support for how to use the tool. All curricula should be accessible by students, or students should be provided technology that makes it accessible.

Guideline: Expression and Communication

leahrusselleducation — 2025-05-04 21:36:28 UTC

It is important that teachers provide different means of expression in order to decrease communication barriers.

Use Multiple Media for Communication

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:01:05 UTC

Teachers need to use a variety of media in the classroom unless it is critical to meet the goal. This helps students value history as well as increases opportunities for students to learn.

Use Multiple Tools for Construction, Composition, and Creativity

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:03:47 UTC

It is important that teachers stay up to date on new tools that can be used. These new tools help teachers stay creative and flexible while including options for construction, composition, and creativity.

Build Fluencies with Graduated Support for Practice and Performance

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:11:27 UTC

It is important to emphasize the process of learning rather than the product that results from it. It is important to support students in their learning but it is also important to gradually release the support they are able to do it on their own.

Address Biases Related to Modes of Expression and Communication

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:14:01 UTC

It is important to value different types of expression and communication even if you or your school is biased towards a certain type.

Guideline: Strategy Development

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:16:26 UTC

A critical part of learning is being able to act purposefully and demonstrate functions. It is also important to monitor students' progress as well as change strategies if needed.

Set Meaningful Goals

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:18:12 UTC

Goals should be both challenging and motivating. By creating goals, teachers can then help students come up with a plan on how to reach those goals. It also helps teachers monitor progress if they have a goal to base it off of.

Anticipate and Plan for Challenges

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:20:23 UTC

Once students create a goal, it is important to plan out everything they will need. This includes strategies, tools, and ways to face challenges that may come up.

Organize Information and Resources

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:23:23 UTC

It is important to keep data and information organized. Teachers have a lot of resources they can use to help keep this information organized.

Enhance Capacity for Monitoring Progress

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:26:24 UTC

Learners need a clear understanding of the progress they have made, and it is important to provide lots of feedback so they are aware of their growth. There are many forms of feedback teachers can use, and it is especially important to use "formative" feedback.

Challenge Exclusionary Practices

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:28:29 UTC

It is important that learners are able to learn from their experiences. This can help bring exclusionary practices to the surface and how to address them.

Tech Examples

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:33:31 UTC

This website can be used to create graphic organizers and mind maps to keep information and data organized.

Tech Examples

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:37:03 UTC

This website can turn any text to speech for students that may struggle reading. This will help break down barrier walls and assist learners while working on assignments.

Tech Examples

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:40:36 UTC

This website allows teachers create interactive books. This program will also read books to the learner as well. This way, students can have fun reading in a new way!

Tech Examples

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:46:43 UTC

This website not only allows students to study, but teachers could use this to point out important information that students should remember. This can help them separate critical information from irrelevant information.

Tech Examples

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:50:59 UTC

This website teaches learners about their emotions through tools, songs, or games. It also has songs about safety for students with a cognitive disability.

Tech Examples

16leahk — 2025-05-04 23:56:25 UTC

This website allows learners to learn while they play. It can be very helpful for students to have fun while learning. This will keep them more engaged and motivated to learn more.

Tech Examples

16leahk — 2025-05-05 00:02:43 UTC

This website is a great tool for teachers wanting to create their own videos to incorporate different types of media in the classroom.