So Much To Learn!: July 2015

What is UDL?
UDL is a framework for designing curriculum that allows for the diversity of students. It has the potential to impact how we teach, how students engage in learning and how we measure what the learn.

A good resource for understanding the theory as well as getting started on a UDL practice,

http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/

Goals

A good place to start is with a goal.

Goals are not the same as standards. Standards articulate what the educational community values and, therefore, what the community believes teachers must teach and assess. Well-designed standards leave room for teachers to shape classroom goals and to individualize the means for attaining them. Deriving clear goals from standards requires teasing out the central purpose of a standard by separating the goal from the means for attaining it and re-stating the goal in a way that is attainable for all students. It requires the teacher to think carefully about the intention of the standard and how flexibility can be designed around it. In short, goals do need to align to standards, but they are not the same thing. © CAST, 2015

For more information on understanding UDL goals:

http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/udl/#content