Tipping Points from Research to Practice

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Tipping Points from Research to Practice CEC 2008
Strand B, Thursday, April 3, 2008
Session 1 Universal Design for Learning
Guidelines for Practice and Research Session
Leaders Anne Meyer, CAST David Rose,
CAST Discussant Dave Edyburn, University of
Wisconsin
If you find these materials useful, heres how to
cite this presentation using APA Rose, D.,
Meyer, A., Edyburn, D. (2008, April 3).
Universal design for learning guidelines for
practice and research. Presented at Council for
Exceptional Children National Convention, Boston,
MA.
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Tipping Points from Research to Practice
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Overview of the Strand
830-930 Guidelines for Practice and
Research 945-1045 Implications for
Educational Policy 1100-1200
Intersection of UDL, RTI, Progress
Monitoring 115-215 Instructional
Materials and Tools 230-330
Digital Media and the Changing Marketplace 345-4
45 Teacher Preparation

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Universal Design for Learning Tipping Points from
Research to Practice CEC Convention Presenters
David Rose, Anne Meyer Discussant Dave
Edyburn April 3, 2008
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Universal Design for Learning
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What do we mean by Universal ?
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Universal
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various cultures, ethnic backgrounds, disabilities
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Universal
Innovations emerge from the margins, not from
the center or mainstream of the industry
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What do we mean by Learning?
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Learning

• Education Blooms Taxonomy of Learning
• Three Domains Cognitive, Psychomotor,
  Affective
• Psychology Vygotsky
• Recognition of the information to be learned
• Application of strategies to process that
  information
• Engagement with the learning task (Vygotsky,
  1962). 

Neuroscience
Recognition
Strategic
Affective
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Learning
Recognition
Multiple representations of information
Strategic
Multiple options for strategy and expression
Affective
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Multiple means of engagement
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What do we mean by Design?
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Design
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elementary school children in classrooms
clustered around tables working on projects, some
with computers.
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Design
Ron Mace coined the term "universal design" to
describe the concept of designing all products
and the built environment to be aesthetic and
usable to the greatest extent possible by
everyone, regardless of their age, ability, or
status in life.
1941-1998 Ron Mace, founderand program director
of The Center for Universal Design
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Design
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Design
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a public buildingclearly not accessible
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Design
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Design Apprenticeship

• Models and Mentors
• Graduated Scaffolding
• Progress monitoring

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Design
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Design
What UDL shows us is THE CURRICULUM IS DISABLED
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Design

• What does it mean to say the curriculum is
  disabled?
• Disabled in WHO it can teach
• Disabled in WHAT it can teach
• Disabled in HOW it can teach

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Where is UDL now?
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Where was UDL?
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Where is UDL?
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Where is UDL ?
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Where is UDL?

• Critical Components for the tipping point
• Sufficient UDL curricular media and materials
• Sufficient UDL Professional Development and
  Support
• Sufficient UDL Research
• Sufficient UDL Policies

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Instructional materials
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Instructional materials

• Challenges
• Insufficient breadth and depth - content,
  grades,
• learners
• Lack of industry standards and fidelity of
• implementation
• Limited UDL assessments

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Professional Preparation Support

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development sessions at various locations
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Professional Preparation Support

Courses at Colleges/Universities Boston
College Boston University California State
University System Colorado State
University Harvard University Lesley
University McNeese State University Oberlin
College Ohio State University Seattle Community
College Sonoma State University SUNY
Albany University of Georgia University of
Maryland University of Southern Maine University
of West VirginiaUniversity of Wisconsin
National Organizations Don Johnson, Inc. National
Education Association
State or District Programs Arizona California Del
aware Ohio Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine
Maryland Massachusetts
Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey New
York Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Washington Wisconsin
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Profesional Preparation Support
On-line pd Tutor sites
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Professional Preparation Support

• Challenges
• Insufficient breadth and depth preservice,
• inservice, content areas, grade levels
• Segregation of special and regular education
• Core UDL competencies havent been identified

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Research
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student at a computer
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Research
Organizations Conducting UDL Research Concord
Consortium EDC SRI International Boston
College Gallaudet University Harvard
University Kansas State University Ohio State
University University of California-Berkeley Unive
rsity of Georgia University of Kansas University
of Kentucky University of Maine University of
Michigan University of Minnesota
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Research

• Challenges
• Insufficient breadth and depth
• Norm based methodologies
• Paucity of peer reviewed UDL articles
• No journal devoted to UDL

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Policy
We dont do POLICY!!!
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student at a computer
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Policy
NIMAS State Initiatives
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Policy

• Challenges
• Insufficient breadth and depth national, state
  and
• local
• Need to go beyond access and address learning
• Limited research evidence of policies
  effectiveness

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New Partners and Initiatives
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Guidelines
Critical limitation for reaching a tipping point
Lack of common guidelines
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Guidelines
Critical limitation for reaching a tipping point
Lack of common guidelines
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Guidelines
Critical limitation for reaching a tipping point
Lack of common guidelines
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Guidelines
Critical limitation for reaching a tipping point
Lack of common guidelines
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ethnic backgrounds, as well as those with visible
disabilities
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Resources for UDL Strand
Access UDL Strand presentations, videos, and a
discussion forum http//www.cast.org/publicatio
ns/conferences/ Access the 2008 UDL
Guidelines http//www.cast.org/publications/UDLgu
idelines/version1.html Access a Blog on the UDL
Guidelines http//udlguidelines.edublogs.org

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Guidelines for Practice and Research

• Discussant
• Dave L. Edyburn
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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If the purpose of schooling

• is to prepare students for life
• Then, why do I have so many options for seeing a
  movie?
• But
• The only way to learn about American History is
  by reading a textbook?

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Paradigm Shift

• Designing for Diversity
• Proactively values differences
• Utilizes technology and instructional design
• Emphasizes academic achievement

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Understanding Transition