UDL Examples and Resources

Quality Rubrics / Home Introduction: A search for "rubrics" in Google returns over 2 million results while Amazon.com claims over 30,000 educational books that address them in one shape or another. For any educator looking to know more about rubrics and how to use them in his or her classroom, finding a starting point can be challenging and difficult. This wiki was created as a place to address two needs: First, to explore what makes a rubric a "quality rubric" with definitions, examples, and non-examples. Second, to wrestle with some of the issues that come along with them. Definition: There are a variety of explanations as to the origins of the word, ranging from text in Medieval manuscripts inked in red in order to draw attention or highlight the words to annotations in the margin of a religious text. Even though many of the sites use the same words in their definition, it is a challenge to determine what makes a quality rubric or what makes one rubric more useful than another. What tasks deserve a rubric?

Getting from Here to There Getting from Here to ThereUDL, Global Positioning Systems, andLessons for Improving Education David H. Rose, Ed. D., and Jenna W. Gravel, Ed. Sadly for education, the commonly-available GPS exemplifies the principles and guidelines of Universal Design for Learning better than most educational curricula. Published in: Gordon, D.T., Gravel, J.W., & Schifter, L.A. (2009). More on this article An analogy for education: How the GPS Addresses UDL Principles Below is a brief summary exploring the features of the GPS through the lens of the UDL guidelines. Principle I. Guideline 1: Provide options for perception The GPS recognizes the diversity among travelers and provides many of the perceptual options recommended in the UDL guidelines. All key information is presented by both visual and auditory means.Options to customize the display of information are built in: you can make the screen brighter, adjust contrast, increase or decrease the size of images, increase or decrease the volume, etc.

Great resource for teachers on how to teach tolerance. Includes access to webinars. Staff, L. (n.d.). Open-enrollment workshops. Learning for Justice. Perspectives for a Diverse America is a literacy-based, anti-bias, social justice curriculum that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Language Arts and Literacy—and to the Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework. Use these on-demand webinars and other related resources (blogs, magazine features, and professional development resources) to learn more about incorporating this FREE web-based curriculum into your instruction. Professional Development Webinars How to Build a Learning Plan Perspectives for a Diverse America offers countless opportunities to differentiate your instruction via individualized learning plans. In this webinar, Teaching Tolerance staff demonstrates how to choose from over 100 instructional strategies and student assessments and 300 rigorous relevant texts. The transcription of this webinar can be found here. You will need to register to access the on-demand webinar. Complex and Diverse Texts for the Common Core and More Publications Anti-bias Framework Blogs

Genres...Narrative & Memoir Our Narrative Workshop's Focus Trait: Idea Development Our Narrative Workshop's Support Traits: Word Choice and Voice In our NNWP workshops, our Northern Nevada participants receive a complimentary copy of the NNWP's print publication, The Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide. This 198-page resource is valued tool in Northern Nevada. The best lessons focus more on the writing process than the writing product. Our genre-inspired teacher workshops include a discussion of all six writing traits, but with each class we try to focus in on one trait that will focus us in on very specific skills. We also believe in differentiated instruction at WritingFix. Questions we discuss: Which idea development skills do you currently have sufficient resources and lessons for instructing all your students?

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