UDL Application: Specialists

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Interventionist

Read: Response-to-Instruction and Universal Design for Learning: How Might They Intersect in the General Education Classroom?

Resources About Growth Mindset - How You Can Incorporate SEL into Your Small Group Time With Students

Watch: Message of Growth Mindset
Watch: This Is Why Will Smith Wants You to Fail Before You Succeed - Fail Forward
Read: The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle
Read: Productive Struggle is a Learner’s Sweet Spot
Read & Listen: Supporting Student Productive Struggle
Read: 8 Teaching Habits that Block Productive Struggle in Math
Read: How to Normalize Mistake Making and Struggle in Class

Resources About Positive Interactions:

Read & Listen: Cult of Pedagogy - Let’s Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover
Read: Building Positive Relationships with Students: What Brain Science Tells Us
Read: 7 ways to praise students as well as a more in-depth guide about The Power of Effective Praise
Watch & Read: The Magic Ration 5 to 1
Read: Why a Positive Approach to Behavior?

Specials & Electives

PE:

Watch: PE - Click Here (7:50)

Watch: PE - Click Here (4:25)

Lesson Plan Example: Elementary Phys Ed lesson.

Watch: Video published by the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) that discusses the importance of universal design for learning in physical education classes.

Lesson Plan Example: Here is an example of using Project-Based Learning (PBL) in PE.

Art:

Watch & Read: Art - Click Here for video (4:11)

Read: Art UDL - Supplemental Resource Article

Listen: This is an amazing podcast with Art for All author, Liz Byron on how to universally design an art course.

Watch: Visual Arts and UDL (1:01:11)

Music:

Watch: Universal Design for Learning in Elementary General Music (12:10)

Read: Music - This peer-reviewed article on learner variability in music theory classrooms provides great background research on UDL, the theory of variability, and the UDL Guidelines.

Watch: Kindergarten Music Lesson (UDL)

Library:

Read: Universal Design for Learning and School Libraries - A logical Partnership

Website: Universal Design for Learning in the School Library

Counselor

Read (Visual): SEL - UDL and SEL Crosswalk

Read: This peer-reviewed article discusses the importance of school counselors building competence in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (pg.4) but the focus of the article is how to better meet the needs of students with disabilities through school counseling and collaboration with teachers.

Multi-Lingual Learners

Watch: UDL for English Learners from CAST (Webinar - 1 hour)

Read: EL - Article: Increasing Engagement of English Learners Through Universal Design for Learning

Read: EL - Article: Why UDL Matters for English Language Learners

Read: EL - UDL and GLAD Crosswalk

Learner Variability Navigator

Click Here to Explore the Learner Variability Navigator Tool

To watch a video tutorial for using this tool, click HERE. Please watch.

Explore this Learner Variability Navigator from Digital Promise that was developed with a grant by the Department of Education. You can search for teaching strategies based on different factors.