Blog #1: Equity and UDL.

1  What does the research say about this?
          UDL has been described as a best practice and a framework to address learning barriers in order to provide challenging, relevant, and accessible access to content for all learners.

      For example of the 8^th graders in Iowa 32%of the students with disabilities passed math vs 83% of their peers without disabilities.

       

2  How can this be effectively integrated into your teaching?

      I feel that is will be a normal part of my teaching. If we were to look at our lesson plans and create PowerPoints with such images or videos with captions. If we were to plan that every Student having a disability we can make PowerPoints that reach all the needs.

3  How will this help your students?

      Especially with kids with learning disability if we were to have captions, videos, colored background or text these things will help in the learning of the students.

4  What are your goals with regard to this topic?

    That when I prep for my lessons I will plan with all the kids needs in mind and that I will have almost if not all the disabilities covered and met for my students.

5  How does this shape your vision for empowered learning for your students?

      When push comes to shove we need to spend that extra min prepping because finding that better image or that better video could make that connection that much better.


Source
https://coe.uni.edu/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/UNI_COE_Thought_Leaders_UDL_Curran_Brennan_Beckman_Kohler_March.2012.pdf