Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based outline that states learner diversity at the beginning of the project or preparation work. When using UDL to create academic goals and curriculum it can help change how teachers teach, how the students learn in class, and how teachers can see which ways students learn better. UDL helps teachers meet the challenge of making instructions, techniques, and strategies that can help students with different ways of learning to achieve. When using UDL the teacher has to make sure she or he are making accommodations for each and every student. For example, if the teacher has a student that is deaf, she or he will have to be able to use sign language. The teachers have to make accommodations for situations where there are students with visual, hearing, motor, and cognitive disabilities.
The website that is below is where I got information about UDL and the pictures I screenshot were from this website too.
"Fact Sheet: Universal Design for Learning | Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL)." Fact Sheet: Universal Design for Learning | Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL). N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.
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The website that is below is where I got information about UDL and the pictures I screenshot were from this website too.
"Fact Sheet: Universal Design for Learning | Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL)." Fact Sheet: Universal Design for Learning | Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy (TEAL). N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.
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Some examples that teachers can do to accommodate to students with disabilities would be:
Some other things teachers can do are modeling with SMART boards, drawing on the SMART board, interactive learning, having the students practice along with the teacher with iPads, using clickers to answer questions that are on the board, and multiple more.
Making sure that each student is able to learn in a way that makes them learn and understand it is something that teachers should be doing. Having power points, worksheets, and hand-ons projects are just different ways to teach something to make sure that students are learning different ways. If the teacher doesn't accommodate for the different learning styles, then the students could just be learning from worksheets and that can get boring after awhile.
Some things that I can do when I am a teacher to make subjects accessible for each student would also go along with the accommodations to students with disabilities. But below are things that I can make accessible.
- Blind: Use audio to explain what is being read and doing partner work.
- Deaf: Sign language and visual materials to explain what is being read.
- Motor: Partner work, make the room accessible to move around, and modeling.
- Cognitive: Take the time to make sure the student understands the information being given either with a para or on your own time one-on-one.
- Having graphs to help link pictures in graphs.
Some other things teachers can do are modeling with SMART boards, drawing on the SMART board, interactive learning, having the students practice along with the teacher with iPads, using clickers to answer questions that are on the board, and multiple more.
Making sure that each student is able to learn in a way that makes them learn and understand it is something that teachers should be doing. Having power points, worksheets, and hand-ons projects are just different ways to teach something to make sure that students are learning different ways. If the teacher doesn't accommodate for the different learning styles, then the students could just be learning from worksheets and that can get boring after awhile.
Some things that I can do when I am a teacher to make subjects accessible for each student would also go along with the accommodations to students with disabilities. But below are things that I can make accessible.
- For those that are motor impaired, I can use voice activated resources on touch screen options.
- For those that are hard of hearing, I can use websites that have text or pictures that don’t require sound. I can also use closed captioning.
- For students that are visually impaired, I can find voice activated web pages.
- For all students, I want to ensure that mu students can read the text, see headers for data tables, make sure additional links make sense to what the content area is, and provide captions for media.