Question+3+UDL

The idea of UDL is very helpful in adminstering differentiated instruction to our students. The framework we recieved today provided some useful brainstorming (thoughtshowering) questions to get started on thinking about the different needs of our students. We need to appeal to our students three levels of networks and provide learning support across all areas. Your classroom will take on a whole new shape when you provide multiple examples, allow flexible ways in demonstrating their knowledge, and offer choices for various content and tools. Challenging our students is essential to keeping them engaged. As Joanne said earlier, the best level for our students to be operating at is a little bit above their instructional level. Bored students will lead to misbehaviors and other classroom problems, but using UDL is a big step to avoiding that. Also allowing for alternate sources of rewards is powerful too. When students can recieve individualized reinforcers they are more likely to want to work hard to earn that than some standard reward that is not meaningful to them. A site that may give some helpful hints to getting started on differentiated instruction is http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/.