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Chapter 6 Using UDL to Support Every Student's Learning Dan Pollis & Ashley Shields //“In many schools around the nation, teachers are finding that collections of digital tools and resources such as these expand their options for presenting information, scaffolding students, and offering choices for student expression.” //

The primary focus of Chapter 6 is to identify teaching strategies that will enable instructors to reach students across the 3 brain networks: ** recognition, strategic, and affective **. Because students learn through many intelligences and in different ways, teaching should be flexible to ensure students’ needs are consistently met.

The keyword to remember when thinking of the teaching strategies outlined in this chapter is OPTIONS! Give students choice, numerous examples, and many levels of challenge à ** options ** is a recurring concept within the chapter.


 * Chapter 6 Teaching Methods **

__Teaching Method 1:__ Provide Multiple Examples --Exposure to multiple examples supports bottom-up recognition processes. __Teaching Method 2:__ Highlight Critical Features --In text, conventions such as italics, bold-faced type, font size, and color highlighting can draw learners' attention to the most important parts. __Teaching Method 3:__ Provide Multiple Media and Formats --Providing multiple representations of patterns through a variety of media, formats, organizations, levels of detail, and degree of depth includes more learners by offering both choice and redundancy. __Teaching Method 4:__ Support Background Knowledge --Teachers help students tie their background knowledge to new patterns (a top-down recognition process) and help fill in gaps by providing related information. __Teaching Method 1:__ Provide Flexible Models of Skilled Performance --Use various models to show students how to do stuff. __ Teaching Method 2: __ Provide Opportunities to Practice with Supports --Use electronic media to scaffold and practice in context __ Teaching Method 3: __ Provide Multiple Media and Formats --Ongoing feedback is crucial, and can be presented in various formats. __ Teaching Method 4: __ Offer Flexible Opportunities for Demonstrating Skill --Give students the chance to use a skill. __Teaching Method 1:__ Offer choices of Content and Tools --We are selective in our likes and dislikes, and giving students an opportunity to select content or tools can increase their enthusiasm to learn. __Teaching Method 2:__ Provide Adjustable Levels of Challenge --Students learn best in the zone of proximal development, but teachers must frequently reevaluate students to ensure they are being challenged. __Teaching Method 3:__ Offer a choice of Rewards --Choice helps level the playing field as far as motivating students to obtain the reward. __Teaching Method 4:__ Offer Choices of Learning Context --Context preferences are individual. For example, some students might learn material better in a quiet environment while others would not be distracted by background conversation.
 * Designing Instruction to Support **** Recognition **** Learning: **
 * Designing Instruction to Support **** Strategic **** Learning: **
 * Designing Instruction to Support **** Affective **** Learning (Motivate and hook your students): **

--Will have built-in flexibility (so the teaching methods above will already be integrated) --Will include electronic tools and media so that instruction accommodates the differences in our learners --“Engaging the Text” Project à ”The goal of this project is to develop readers who are strategic, engaged, and self-aware as learners…We are exploring how teachers might combine successful instructional techniques with versatile technologies.”
 * The Future of Curricula? **

//Click the link below for a concept map of the key concepts outlined in Chapter 6: [] here.

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Below are the lyrcis to the UDL song which I wrote (and sing on the podcast):

__The UDL (tune of Under the Sea)__ The Universal Design for Learning Has 3 different learning types Recognition of basic knowledge Present it in different lights Strategic means skilled performance But first you model the task Affective means motivation To keep kids awake in class!

The U-D-L The U-D-L Offer up choices Give the students voices Your lessons will sell!

Engage each learner in your class No one will need to finish last Because of those options, the joint’ll be hoppin’ The U-D-L!!!