Pedagogy: Universal Design for Learning and Differentiated Instruction
About Universal Design for Learning:Universal Design for Learning is an approach to designing and delivering instruction that addresses a wide variety of student learning capabilities. This includes different learning styles and learning disabilities.
It addresses both the ways that information is presented to students and the methods that students are able to show what they know.
About UDL from CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology: "Students in today's classrooms present a wide mix of abilities and learning needs, e.g. differing degrees of readiness and background knowledge, varied educational and cultural experiences, differing rates of skill acquisition (either gifted or special needs), and broad diversity in the ability to maximize learning through traditional educational methods and materials. UDL is a framework for designing curriculum that addresses the diverse needs, strengths, backgrounds, and interests of students in today's classrooms." UDL Guidelines consist of:
(See also document embedded below.) Tools to Assist with Differentiating:
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About Differentiated Instruction: "To differentiate instruction is to recognize students' varying background knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning and interests; and to react responsively. Differentiated instruction is a process to teaching and learning for students of differing abilities in the same class. The intent of differentiating instruction is to maximize each student's growth and individual success by meeting each student where he or she is and assisting in the learning process."
Hall,Tracey, Nicole Strangman, and Anne Meyer. "Differentiated Instruction and Implications for UDL Implementation." National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials. National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials at CAST, Inc. 14 Jan. 2011. Web. 2, Nov. 2011.
About Differentiation from the National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials: "Differentiated instruction applies an approach to teaching and learning that gives students multiple options for taking in information and making sense of ideas. Differentiated instruction is a teaching theory based on the premise that instructional approaches should vary and be adapted in relation to individual and diverse students in classrooms (Tomlinson, 2001). The model of differentiated instruction requires teachers to be flexible in their approach to teaching and adjust the curriculum and presentation of information to learners rather than expecting students to modify themselves for the curriculum." |
Tomlinson, Carol. "Differentiation Model." Differentiation Central. Chart. Institutes on Academic Diversity in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia,
2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2011. http://differentiationcentral.com/model.html
2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2011. http://differentiationcentral.com/model.html