UDL: Universal Design for Learning
My Experience with UDL CAST (n.d.) stated the three principles of UDL: engagement, representation, and action/expression. As an elementary school teacher, I always try to incorporate UDL into my classroom in order for students with different learning preferences and styles so that each student can succeed independently. For engagement and representation, I give the learning materials in as many different modalities as possible in order to engage each student and give them equitable access to the learning materials. For me, this means putting the material in text, audio, visually, and kinesthetically. For action/expression, I try to let students submit their work in the modality that best suits their learning preferences: text, visual graphic, artistic representation, video, and so on, just as Rao et al. (2016) suggested. Rao et al. (2016) emphasized first unpacking the stated learning objective and then addressing what can be made flexible in it. For example, if the learnin...