5364-UDL Lesson Post

For our group project we had to create a UDL lesson on our unit for our scenario. The template is located in http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/ This by far was the hardest for me. As teachers we differentiate our learning everyday without even thinking about it. There is no "one size fits all" for our students so this is nothing new. I really had to dissect the project for my students in order to complete my UDL lesson. UDL stands for Universal Design Learning and it has to have three network components in it; Recognition Network, Strategic Network, and Affective Network. Recognition stands for "what", how we gather the facts, the delivery of the lesson. Strategic is how the students express what we have delivered or what they learned, but they have to be able to express it in different forms in order to cover all learners. Affective Network is how we stimulate the learning and their desire to learn it, which has to be done in order for the student to actually want and be able to retain the information that was taught to them. This task was daunting, but it helped me better understand the needs of my students and that I can dig deeper and better acomodate my lessons and the delivery of them.