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LEARN
LEARN
What to consider for the front of the room
What to consider for the front of the room
What is the most important information today that you want everyone to pay attention to?
Consider how you are recruiting interest and supporting executive function so that learners can be more indepedent
Access Check:
Access Check:
Can everyone perceive the most important information?
Is everyone interacting with the most important information?
Can everyone access the relevance and connect to the most important information?
“When [students] find the environment threatening on an emotional level, they will not be able to leverage instruction in the service of learning, even if the instruction is well designed.”
–Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice
Supporting learners to become interested
Supporting learners to become interested
Check out the Provide Options for Recruiting Interest Guideline
To Support Recruiting Interest in the Front of the Room consider...
To Support Recruiting Interest in the Front of the Room consider...
Sharing the purpose of goals
Connecting goals to life beyond school
Focusing attention on what is most important and relevant
Inviting all learners into the learning space
“When we educators fail to appreciate the importance of students' emotions, we fail to appreciate a critical force in students' learning. One could argue, in fact, that we fail to appreciate the very reason that students learn at all."
-Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Supporting learners' executive functions
Supporting learners' executive functions
Check out the Provide Options for Executive Functions Guideline
To Support Executive Functions in the Front of the Room consider...
To Support Executive Functions in the Front of the Room consider...
Outlining a clear agenda for the day and week
Creating a stuck station where students can always go to get resources or help
Defining success in a way that allows learners to monitor their own progress
Making all necessary resources available and easy to find
Supporting learners to manage their time and plan
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur
COLLABORATE
COLLABORATE
Interview a colleague:
What is your design challenge?
How do you hope students will interact with the learning environment?
What barriers are getting in the way? Consult the UDL guidelines - What options might minimize those barriers?
Read the UDL Learning Spaces Idea Kit with a colleague. Choose three cards to explore and use for brainstorming.
DESIGN
DESIGN
Choose a space in your classroom to consider. Use the Learning Environment Map to build and experiment In that space, what barriers do you want to address? What new predictable options could you offer?
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