Universal Design For Learning (UDL)
As any teacher will say, it becomes clear (quite quickly) that differentiated instruction for you class is all but impossible. Trying to create individual learning plans is an incredibly time consuming endeavor and in my experience is a one-way trip to teacher teacher burnout. To implement said plans a similarly mammoth task. That being said, the kids in my class deserve to be scaffolded as they require when problem solving. Vygotsky’s ideas around the Zone of Proximal Development and the subsequent ideas of others working in the social learning discipline address the ideas of diversity within the classroom. “Design learning is all about trying to meet the diverse and variable needs of all students in your classroom.” ( TKI ) “Planning can incorporate students “in the margin” while at the same time benefiting all students in the classroom. Addressing diversity through the UDL lens helps teachers accommodate individual differences through inten...