UDL
This UDL principle focuses on how students take in information, encouraging teachers to use multiple modes like visuals, audio, and movement to engage all learners.
What is “Multiple Means of Representation”?
This type of classroom support changes how a student learns the material, such as allowing extra time, providing enlarged sheet music, or seating a student closer to the conductor, without changing what is being taught.
What is accommodation?
You’re designing a lesson about tempo. You ask students to walk, clap, and conduct along to recordings of different tempos. Which learning approach are you using to help students embody a concept through movement?
What is kinesthetic?
This plan, created under the Rehabilitation Act, ensures that students with disabilities receive equal access through accommodations, not modifications to the curriculum.
What is 504?
A student has difficulty reading notation and lyrics due to a diagnosed learning disability that affects how they process written information.
Which domain of disability does this describe?
In a general music class, providing students with options to sing, play, or use technology-based instruments reflects this UDL principle.
What is “Multiple Means of Action and Expression”?
This type of support changes what the student is expected to learn or demonstrate, such as reducing the number of notes in a part or simplifying rhythmic complexity.
What is modification?
List two benefits of a portfolio assessment
What is progress over time, etc.
This federal law guarantees that eligible students receive special education and related services through an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
What is IDEA?
During movement activities, a student with cerebral palsy uses a wheelchair and modified instruments for participation.
This student’s disability falls under which domain?
What is physical/medical?
When a music teacher invites students to choose between composing a short melody, writing song lyrics, or creating album art for an assignment, they’re supporting this UDL principle that emphasizes motivation and choice.
What is “Multiple Means of Engagement”?
When a teacher re-writes a clarinet part for a student who uses only one hand by transferring it to a single-line melody on a keyboard, this is an example of this broader practice that alters the approach, instrument, or materials for access.
What is adaptation?
You’re preparing a concert and want to ensure accessibility for the audience and performers. Name two inclusive practices you could implement.
What are examples such as providing ASL interpretation, accessible seating, program materials in Braille or digital formats, sensory-friendly lighting, or flexible stage setups?
You’re teaching a student with an IEP who struggles with music notation. Their IEP lists assistive technology support.
Which accommodation might align with that goal?
What is using notation software, enlarged-print scores, or color-coded notation systems?
A student frequently covers their ears during loud rehearsals and becomes overwhelmed by unstructured transitions.
This behavior may be associated with which specific disability?
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
Your students are struggling to understand syncopation during a rhythm lesson. To apply the UDL principle of Multiple Means of Representation, what could you add or change in your instruction to help all learners grasp the concept?
What are strategies such as using visual rhythm maps, color-coded notation, physical movement to feel the beat, or playing recorded examples that highlight syncopation?
You notice a student with limited fine-motor control struggles to play recorder fingerings accurately.
What are two ways to adapt the activity while maintaining the musical goal?
What are strategies such as using color-coded holes, assigning a percussion role to focus on rhythm accuracy, or providing an adaptive recorder or digital instrument?
You want students to better understand dynamics. You play a piece, have them draw what they hear using shapes or colors, and then perform their drawings with instruments. What type of strategy are you using?
What is multimodal?
List three requirements of an IEP
Transition plan, measurable goals, alternative assessments, etc.
A student has a disability causeing them to frequently have angry outbursts, they do not easily follow teacher directions, and have trouble taking care of instruments.
What domain would their disability fall under?
What is emotional/behavioral?
UDL as a concept originated in this field
What is architecture?
Your choir includes a student with dyslexia who finds reading lyrics challenging.
To provide an appropriate accommodation, what two supports could you offer without reducing the musical expectations?
What are strategies such as providing printed lyrics with larger font or color contrast, using pictorial or audio cues, pre-teaching difficult words, or pairing with a peer for lyric tracking?
You’re designing a music room for accessibility. What are two features you might include to make the space universally designed for all learners?
What are examples such as adjustable music stands, clear floor pathways, visual cue cards, flexible seating, accessible instrument storage, or sound-dampening materials?
This civil rights legislation/law was the cornerstone of most modern special education law
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A student uses an FM system to better hear instructions and melody lines.
This accommodation supports a disability in which domain?
What is communication?