Active Learning
This strategy gets students moving around the room to exchange ideas or evidence cards.
What is a gallery walk?
What is problem-based learning?
What is Blackboard Ultra?
Students are more engaged when they feel this emotional connection to peers and instructors.
What is belonging?
This type of assessment occurs during learning and provides actionable feedback.
What is formative assessment?
UDL’s first principle focuses on providing multiple means of doing this, so all learners can take in information.
What is representation?
This collaborative activity divides a topic into parts so each student becomes an “expert.”
What is a Jigsaw?
This polling tool allows instructors to pose live questions to students via phones or laptops.
What is Slido?
This type of motivation comes from curiosity, interest, or enjoyment of learning itself.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Rubrics and checklists support transparency in learning through this framework.
What is TILT (Transparency in Learning and Teaching)?
Providing audio versions of readings or captions on videos aligns with this UDL principle.
What is multiple means of representation?
This technique helps students activate prior knowledge by brainstorming ideas before instruction.
What is a KWL chart or anticipatory set?
This collaborative whiteboard tool supports visual brainstorming in synchronous or asynchronous settings.
What is Microsoft Whiteboard?
Sharing your own learning struggles helps humanize instruction and foster this quality in your classroom.
What is psychological safety?
Using peer review, self-assessment, or AI feedback tools can increase this sense of student control.
What is agency or autonomy?
Offering options for discussion posts, infographics, or podcasts allows for multiple means of this.
What is expression?
In this active learning approach, students must explain their reasoning to peers to strengthen conceptual understanding.
What is peer instruction?
This tool allows for social annotation of course materials.
What is Perusall?
Learning students’ names and using them regularly in class supports this key aspect of inclusive teaching.
What is building relationships?
This type of feedback focuses on what students did well and offers specific next steps for improvement.
What is constructive or actionable feedback?
Building student choice and relevance into assignments taps into this UDL principle.
What is engagement?
This method uses real-world scenarios to encourage problem solving, often mirroring professional practice.
What is problem-based learning?
This Adobe platform helps create visually engaging digital posters, videos, and web pages.
What is Adobe Express?
Research shows that feedback emphasizing growth rather than grades promotes this type of mindset.
What is a growth mindset?
This approach emphasizes reflection on both learning outcomes and learning processes.
What is metacognitive assessment?
CAST’s 2024 UDL 3.0 update emphasizes that learning is a social, emotional, and this type of process.
What is identity-based?