Website Review: The National Center on Universal Design

The National Center on Universal Design for Learning is a website that Dr. Johnson introduced to us. It is a site that teachers can use to help develop lessons which will give all individuals equal opportunity to learn.
It provides teachers with a blue print of goals, lessons, methods, materials, that work for everyone is the class room. Approaches that can be customized for any individual. UDL uses the concept that there are three parts of learning: Recognition, or the "what" of learning. This is how we gather facts and recognize letters. UDL helps a teacher present information in different ways. Strategic, or the "how" of learning. This is planning and performing tasks, organize and express ideas, writing a paper or solving a math problem. UDL offers teachers different ways that the children can express what they know. The third part of learning is Affective which is the "why" of learning. UDL provides teachers with more ways to provide multiple means of engagement.

I am very excited about this website, and I feel that it will help me plan lessons in all areas of content. Lessons that will be designed to reduce any barriers,  so that all children in my class can achieve.