UDL/DI A Daunting Challenge

I have just completed an application on Managing the UDL/DI Classroom and realized, as I put it all together, that I have discovered, with the help of some of my Walden University classmates, a variety of new and useful technology tools to employ in teaching my Special Needs students. Now, I am faced with the challenge of implementing the plans I have laid out. The most difficult part will be trying to do this mid-stream so to speak.

As a full time Special Ed. teacher, making the time to continue the necessary research, identify the most effective tools I find, practice using them enough to be capable of instructing my students on how to use them, and then doing the actual instruction using the tools, and then knowing it will all have to be tweaked along the way, all appears to be a daunting challenge at this time.

I will probably just take one or two of the programs and tools I have found at a time, and try them out, so that by the end of this school year I will have a handle on which ones work and which don't, and what I may need to do to make them work, so that I may more fully implement a complete UDL/DI instructional plan next school year.

John C.

Universal Design for Learning

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way to examine what we can do today in school to serve the needs of all of our students, with the objective of helping educators fully engage every student in the learning process.

UDL has come about after many years extensive research into what happens in the human brain as people learn. This research has led to the development of methods, materials and technologies that help address the learning capabilities of students across the spectrum.

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