Universal Design for Learning in Action

Whitney H. Rapp

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781598573909
• eBook ISBN: 9781598575149
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

Need creative ideas for moving UDL from theory to practice? Get this must-have quick guide, ready for any teacher to pick up and start using now. Whitney Rapp, co-author of the acclaimed Teaching Everyone, walks you step by step through 100 UDL strategies that strengthen student engagement, learning, and assessment. Based on the latest research (but still practical and fun!), these highly effective ideas will help you address diverse learning needs and increase all students' access to the general curriculum. Essential for every educator who wants to know what UDL really looks like, sounds like, and feels like—and how to use this proven approach to teach and reach all learners.

100 UDL STRATEGIES FOR:

• Classroom space and materials: The best uses of seating, lighting, bulletin boards, and more
• Classroom management: From smoother schedules and meetings to effective transition areas
• Technologies: Fresh ways to use blogs, videoconferencing, e-books, and more
• Content instruction: Teach academic content with tools like music, drawing, mnemonics, and humor
• Social interaction: Creative games and small-group activities that sharpen all kids' social skills
• Executive functions: Great ideas for templates, rubrics, graphic organizers, timers, and web-based materials
• Transition to adulthood: Prepare students for the real world with charts, goal plans, and more
• Assessment: New ways kids can show what they know—from adapted tests to family projects

Index

Page numbers followed by f indicate figures.

AAC, see Augmentative and alternative communication supports

AADB, see American Association of the Deaf-Blind

Ability profiles, 172–173

AbleNet, 129, 185

Abstractness, continuum of, 90

Accessibility

accessible PowerPoint presentations, 91

accessible presentation software, 91–92

adapted tests for, 157–158

auditory books, 70

auditory input, 81–82

computer, 129

equitable, 183

visual input, 83–84

visually accessible text, 69

ACN, see Association for Comprehensive Neurotherapy

Activities

games, 37, 47

group activities, 42

with products, 161

tactile activities, 42–43

Adapted keyboards, 129

Adapted monitors, 129

Adapted tests, 157–158

Adapter cords, 76

Adaptive tools, 118

Aided communication systems, 130

Alternative assessments, 153

American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB), 186

American Council of the Blind, 186

American Sign Language (ASL), 14, 62

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), 130, 186

Amplifiers, personal, 81

Animated videos and presentations, 91

Apps, 97

Arts, used to develop executive functions, 52–53

ASHA, see American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

ASL, see American Sign Language

Assessment

through activities with products, 161

alternative, 153

considerations, 153–156

formal, 152

formative, 153

through homework, 163–168

informal, 152

multiple means of, 4, 152–153

through performance assessment, 153, 169–171

through portfolio assessment, 153, 172–174

self-assessment, 153

through self-evaluation, 175–179

strategies for, 152–179

summative, 153

teaching to the test, 154

through testing, 157–162

Assignments, coded, 117

Assistive technology

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• Dedication
• Section I. Overview
• Section II. Strategies for Engagement
• Section III. Strategies for Input
• Section IV. Strategies for Output
• Section V. Strategies for Assessment
• Section VI. A Living Resource
• References
• Index