UDL+Lesson+Plan

This week in EDLD 5364, our assignment was to create a Universal Designs for Learning Lesson using a template given to us. Over the summer, I participated in our district lesson plan development so I had prior experience with this type of lesson plan development. I created a series of Units for several courses that I teach, one being Graphic Design and Illustration. The assignment I created using the UDL template provided, focused on teaching students about Graphic Design Principles. Technology courses work seamlessly with UDL principles because we tradiitonally provide several ways to teach concepts, provide creativity in how students perform assessments and accomodate multiple learning styles. Typically, a student will have a concept discussed by the teacher, read curriculum materials that are related and then create a product that demonstrates mastery of those concepts. To accomofate the 3 primary brain networks, UDL states that teachers should present information and content in a variety of ways. This is done by presenting materials visually, verbally during discussions, defining key terms and then allowing students to master concepts during an application assignment. Students can express what they know in different ways because they are in control of what images they choose and lastly, the assignment stimulates their interests by letting them have control over the images and themes they use.

Click the link below to view my UDL Lesson.