Creating a UDL Lesson
Big Idea (s)
Essential Questions
Common Core State Standards and Michigan Content Expectations:
Objectives:
Two to four learning targets that reflect the understandings or insights students are expected to develop by the end of this lesson. Objectives should relate directly to the summative assessment.
Essential Questions
Common Core State Standards and Michigan Content Expectations:
Objectives:
Two to four learning targets that reflect the understandings or insights students are expected to develop by the end of this lesson. Objectives should relate directly to the summative assessment.
Building Blocks of a UDL Lesson
Lesson
Opening:
The opening activity should establish a purpose, be engaging and activate prior knowledge.
Include a plan for explicitly sharing learning objectives, summative assessment and learning outcome expectations.
Exploration:
Activities that enable students to make discoveries related to the big idea and t
hat promote student inquiry.
Check for Understanding
Strategies for determining the student's level of understanding as it relates to the big idea, essential questions and learning objectives. Be sure to include multiple means to demonstrate understanding, include methods that assess all learners and describe the next steps you will take based on the assessment results.
Explanation:
The plan to deliver the content to help students develop a mastery of the objectives. Be sure to provide: explicit learning strategies, multiple representations of information provided, direct instruction to address new vocabulary, frequent opportunities for response and practice, content summary, variety of student centered learning activities.
Summative Assessment:
The final assessment used to provide evidence that students have met the learning objective. It should provide choices related to interest and multiple, flexible means for completion that support learning preferences. All summative assessment assignments should include an explicit description of the criteria for quality work.
Extended Practice:
Activities that will help to deepen understanding and provide for greater fluency and accuracy with the new skill. Practice should include both supervised and unsupervised opportunities and have a clear purpose that’s shared with the learner. When possible, activities should be authentic and include multiple ways to practice new material.
Closing
Review of big ideas for the purpose of tying ideas together, transitioning to next lesson or continuing practice.
The lesson framework was adapted from the work of :
Price, Nelson; Planning Effective Instruction, 2007
The opening activity should establish a purpose, be engaging and activate prior knowledge.
Include a plan for explicitly sharing learning objectives, summative assessment and learning outcome expectations.
Exploration:
Activities that enable students to make discoveries related to the big idea and t
hat promote student inquiry.
Check for Understanding
Strategies for determining the student's level of understanding as it relates to the big idea, essential questions and learning objectives. Be sure to include multiple means to demonstrate understanding, include methods that assess all learners and describe the next steps you will take based on the assessment results.
Explanation:
The plan to deliver the content to help students develop a mastery of the objectives. Be sure to provide: explicit learning strategies, multiple representations of information provided, direct instruction to address new vocabulary, frequent opportunities for response and practice, content summary, variety of student centered learning activities.
Summative Assessment:
The final assessment used to provide evidence that students have met the learning objective. It should provide choices related to interest and multiple, flexible means for completion that support learning preferences. All summative assessment assignments should include an explicit description of the criteria for quality work.
Extended Practice:
Activities that will help to deepen understanding and provide for greater fluency and accuracy with the new skill. Practice should include both supervised and unsupervised opportunities and have a clear purpose that’s shared with the learner. When possible, activities should be authentic and include multiple ways to practice new material.
Closing
Review of big ideas for the purpose of tying ideas together, transitioning to next lesson or continuing practice.
The lesson framework was adapted from the work of :
Price, Nelson; Planning Effective Instruction, 2007