Universal Design for Learning


I have completed the UDL checklist to critique a Lesson Plan I have produced. This was an eye opening experience. Items that were not represented or underrepresented in my lesson plan were marked as “barrier” and those that were well represented or mostly represented were marked as “feature” I have also explained why.

This activity did point out many week points in my lesson plan. The problem is that it seems as though to cover all these bases it would take a great deal of time and effort to plan the lesson, to go through the lesson and to provide feedback on the lesson. It looks like a sound and well research theory, but how does this actually translate to practice? I would like to hear from high school science teachers that are effectively using this technique to see how they are doing it.