Category: Classroom Strategies

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    The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework in Practice

    Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that supports each student in the classroom. It supports each student in the classroom by acknowledging that each student has different needs, comes from different educational backgrounds, has different interests, has different language talents, and has different cultures and identities that represent them. Given the unique makeup of each classroom, UDL offers teachers a way to support each student. In a content-literacy classroom, UDL is incredibly important. UDL, in practice, can look like drawing vocabulary words with math symbols to support comprehension, showing students how to decode a difficult piece of science...