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UDL Implementation tools, protocols, exemplars & articles
Sharing tools, protocols, exemplars & articles that relate to each of the UDL implementation phases.
Note: We imagine that Explore resources will be highlighted in the LEARN section of the INCLUDE website.
The following information identifies and/or links possible tools for each of the next four phases – Prepare, Integrate, Scale & Optimize. Click on the images below to link to the relevant resources described below….
PREPARE
TALIS – Teaching and Learning International Survey
Teaching Practices, Teachers’ Beliefs and Attitudes. A tool to assess teacher beliefs about teaching and learning. Understanding teacher beliefs about learning can support entry points into the UDL framework.
Survey of Teacher Attitude Regarding Inclusive Education
This dissertation research looks at teacher beliefs regarding inclusive education. Understanding beliefs about disability/diversity/inclusion can be helpful in identifying biases and expectations in the classroom environment. Note assessment tool begins on pg. 72.
Book Chapter – Beliefs About Inclusion
Chapter 4. Examining Beliefs, Attitudes, and Understandings as Inclusive Schools Are Developed. This book chapter focuses on teacher beliefs about inclusion and preparedness to teach in inclusive classrooms.
UDL-Universe: A Comprehensive Faculty Development Guide
Developed as a project of the California State University system, UDL-Universe (UDL-U) supports postsecondary faculty and staff by providing resources and examples to improve postsecondary education for all students, including those with disabilities. UDL-U is designed to be useful for individual inquiries related to small UDL topics, issues, or problems, as well as scalable to larger faculty development efforts (e.g., Faculty Learning Communities).
How do YOU teach? – A Quick UDL Checklist
This resource could be helpful in identifying a starting point that feels “doable” for teachers who may feel overwhelmed and also help them identify what they are already doing well.
Web Aim Articles on Creating Accessible Content
Good resource on creating accessible materials from scratch – suitable for all educators. Technology developments in Office 365, Google and mobile apps means this will have revisited and updated often. Newer content already available on YouTube.
FREE OR LOW-COST ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR EVERYONE
Great resource on low cost and freeware technologies. Understanding these technologies is important for educators – Gives them an understanding of the alternative means some student choose to engage with their curriculum and engagement overall.
UDL Tech Toolkit
Another tool on technologies available to support UDL.
UDL Tools For All Grades and Subject Areas
Site with “UDL guidelines by multiple means of representation, multiple means of action & expression, and multiple means of engagement.”
Leveraging neuroscience in lesson design
Article on social-emotional aspects of learning and diversity: Allison Posey
INTEGRATE
Delaying the Grade: How to Get Students to Read Feedback
This is a resource to understand the feedback process which is critical to UDL integration
UDL Flowchart
When you design a learning experience, and you want to determine if you have in fact, considered all the barriers that prevent students from learning, take a moment to look over the UDL flowchart.
Universal Design for Learning: A Practical Guide
You will learn more about UDL and how it could reshape your course design and delivery through this guide.
UDL Navigators in Higher Education: A Field Guide
Eric Moore and Jodie Black
Jodie Black and Eric J. Moore have been at the vanguard of UDL implementation at their respective institutions. In UDL Navigators in Higher Education: A Field Guide, they share strategies and resources for introducing UDL to postsecondary systems.
UDL Progression Rubric
Tips to flesh out the UDL guidelines to see how the journey to becoming an expert learner
UDL and Culturally Responsive Teaching in Higher Ed
An infographic showing how priorities in intercultural teaching competence matches up with UDL principles.
SCALE
Voices From the Field: Implementing and Scaling-Up Universal Design for Learning in Teacher Preparation Programs Eric Moore et al. 2017
This is a resource to understand the feedback process which is critical to UDL integration
SCALING UP BY FOCUSING DOWN: CREATING SPACE TO EXPAND EDUCATION REFORM
This is not particularly related to UDL but offers a general view of the notion of scaling, perspectives, and factors influencing its implementation. Although the concept is not discussed in the UDL context, it offers relevant information that helps develop the understanding and implementation of scaling in UDL.
“Scaling-out” evidence-based interventions to new populations
It explains the notion of scaling at the heart of the implementation science.
As the above, these types and variants of scaling in the context of evidence-based interventions can develop the understanding and implementation of scaling in UDL.
Timeline for UDL Implementation
Timeline for UDL implementation season by season
Developing an Institutional Approach to UDL – Big Bang or Slow Burn?
This article provides a case study of how De Montfort University strategically rolled out UDL at the institutional level.
CUTLAS Ed Development
CUTLAS is a team-based, UDL approach to curriculum design implemented at DeMontfort University
OPTIMIZE
Building a Successful Community of Practice
Good practice guidelines for developing a community of practice. Highlights some key points about setting up and maintaining a CoP.