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I've been teaching for 15 years and I'd never heard of this particular approach because most of it is common sense and should be applied to any normal classroom anyway. Of course all students have different strengths and weaknesses, of course all good lessons should include different methods of learning to accommodate all of the aforementioned learning needs. This just sounds like common sense teaching to me. It really seems a shame that this isn't second nature to anyone with more than a couple of years of classroom teaching under their belt. What are they teaching new teachers these days? Dynamic and flexible lesson plans were taught as standard back when I was completing my PGCE!
Anyone learning to drive a car knows they are going to be accelerating, stopping and turning a steering wheel. So why should they analyse or study this if it’s so logical?
This is how these "educational professionals" make their money. They take something teachers have been doing for years, slap a fancy name on it, "study" it, then write a book about it and get paid $$$ going around the country teaching it.
I really appreciated having all this information about the 'UDL' .Universal Design Learning, which I'm going to apply with our students in my class, which are Special need kids.They really need help in so many different ways.
I hadn't heard the term "UDL" untile recently, but nothing within it should be considered "new" to any capable educator. It is good that it is being laid out so plainly though, as there are certainly plenty of systems where administrators and teachers are not following these basic premises and failing to give students what they need when they need it.
What a preposterous approach. Education is to pass on to students what society considers the best skills and knowledge not what each student likes, feels good at or is comfortable with. When you go to basketball camp you learn to play basketball not whatever other game you are good at or like. By not teaching all students the most valuable skills and knowledge and challenging them to go beyond their existing preferences these so-called educators are harming both the students and society
What UDL attempts to do is help all learners become expert learners - learners who are purposeful, motivated, resourceful, knowledgeable, strategic and goal-directed. The goal is to challenge students but also acknowledge their variability so that we don't leave some students out (by our design). To use a sports analogy, if we teach using the concept of "average" - think an average shoe size of men's 8.5 - and we wanted to see if you had potential as a runner, then the closer you are to this average the more likely you are to succeed. This is explained really well in Todd Rose's video "Variability Matters". In your example, if you wanted to teach basketball, then you'd consider all the barriers (height, interest, experience, personality, etc.) and design instruction, practice and assessment that helps each person reach their potential in basketball. While you're doing that, you also want to teach them the strategies to persevere, plan, work cooperatively with a team and reflect on their progress and think about ways to improve as well as lessons learned to apply when they want to learn another sport. (Hope that makes sense). There is SO much more to UDL than is described in this video. It not only has rows (as described here) but layers, helping you design instruction that moves from external (teacher controlled) to internal (student driven). It asks to you critically exam your assumptions and beliefs about learners and learners and it asks you to remove barriers (rather than assuming since the "average" kid is successful, the others are lazy, unmotivated, less intelligent, etc.). If you are interested I co-wrote a book on UDL - Dive into UDL (second edition). There is a companion website as well www.diveintoudl.com.
@@OpentoEvidence You don't even realise how disrespectful what you say is to the majority of teachers. UDL is just common sense when teaching and every good teacher applies it to his/her everyday lessons without the need for fancy names/acronyms.
Guy: In this video you will learn everything you will want to know about universally designed learning. Me: Hmm...is that right? Some good info though thank you.