I try to make my curriculum as inclusive as possible, but I know there's always room for improvement. I really like the UDL framework concept and how it proposes to meet the needs of diverse learners. I'd like to incorporate the flexible, accessible, and engaging instructional materials to my courses, and offer students more variety in how they can express their ability and problem solving.
Reply to Angela Zaugg's post: I am also new to the concept of universal design for learning. I am looking forward to applying this framework to my daily lesson plans.
As an occupational therapist who works to remove barriers for people to access occupations and activities that bring them purpose and value, the concept of universal design makes sense and seems to be a worthy pursuit in the classroom and curricular design.
I am new to the concept of universal design for learning, so I am currently just working to understand the concepts so that I can apply them to my curriculum development and daily lesson plans.
I had a professor in college that incorporated all learning styles in her presentation. I am a kinstetic, audible and sight learner. To me when you understand your students and how they learn then you can adjust accordingly to make the learning experience more rewarding. It requires you to understand your students and the only way to do that is to talk with them when you have opportunities. Now if you have a class that's increadibly big then you have to do things in class differenly. This means each person is going to have to figure out how they are going to incorporate this and be flexible.
