UDL at CMSCE, Rutgers University

As we get ready for the students to come back this September, let’s take a look at some resources that are available to us.

English Language Listening Lab

Promoting Multiple Representations in Algebra

Wolfram Mathworld

Foreign Language Voicethread Ning

Math Counts for All Learners
Examples:
Fractions Activity
Annenberg Videos

We’ll also review the UDL Guidelines as we look at the existing lessons you brought with you and work together to embed the UDL Framework.

Sometimes we need to go back to the beginning and review the WHY behind the tools and concepts we are using to help our students. We have spent hours looking at the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines and talking about the UDL Framework.

Today we are going to refocus ourselves on the Three Brain Networks. We’re going to redefine the Recognition, Strategic and Affective Networks and how you can customize your lessons to provide multiple alternatives for your students. We’ll be working on this as a group, but you can do this activity independently here.

As we work together to increase our UDL activity database, we are going to continue to use Delicious to remain organized. The more familiar we are with the strategies we can use to remove the barriers that keep our students from meeting their learning objectives, the more likely we are going to be to determine what type of tool or material will help them in the classroom or at home. But if we don’t remain organized and familiar with the tools we review and feel comfortable with, we won’t be able to make them available to our students so that they can experience success.

Some of the resources we’re going to use today are:

Special Education Technology
http://www.setbc.org/setinfo/bcudl/resources.html

Thinking UDL
http://anitas.edublogs.org/

The BC UDL Learning Object Repository
http://setbc.ca/BCUDL/

We reviewed many concepts today, but most importantly we attempted to make sure that we are all on the same page. Here’s what we were hopefully able to accomplish as a group today:

1. Review of the UDL framework and how to embed the framework into your lesson plans
2. Understand the concepts of Universal Design for Learning and applications to mathematics
3. Develop action steps to integrate concepts into classroom
4. Free technology tools to develop UDL activities for your lessons
5. Breaking down the barriers – finding UDL solutions

Most of the resources that we used today are found using the tabs at the top of this blog or the links list at the bottom right. Which resource is going to be the most helpful to you in helping you break down the barriers in your math classroom? Please leave the answer in your comment.