Basic
Principles
Checkpoints
Guidelines
Application
100
Learners differ in many characteristics such as attention, background knowledge and skills.
What is variability?
100
Align with the 3 learning networks of the brain
What is UDL Principles?
100

In the 21st century, all learners must be able to communicate and collaborate effectively within a community of learners. 

What is foster collaboration and community?
100

alternative ways to motivate learners, gain attention, ways that reflect the important inter- and intra-individual differences amongst learners.

What is recruit interest?
100

Students will read the selection and name the 3 main characters.

What is a learning goal with a constricted verb?

200
The idea that one size fits most.
What is the myth of average?
200
Learners differ in ways they can be motivated to learn.
What is engagement?
200

Examples such as discussion forums, chats, web design, annotation tools, storyboards, comic strips, animation presentations

What is use multiple media for communication?
200

Provide spellcheckers, grammar checkers, word prediction software, text to speech, calculators, graphing calculators, geometric sketchpads, or pre-formatted graph paper, sentence starters or sentence strips,story webs, outlining tools, or concept mapping tools.

What is provide options for expression and communication?
200

You are going to be a "historical investigator" and help the curator of the Lincoln Museum prepare presentations for the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln in order to help visitors understand the era.

What is an engaging scenario?
300
Accessible for all.
What is universal design?
300
Learners differ in ways they can navigate the learning environment and show what they know.
What is action and expression?
300

Anchor instruction by linking to and activating relevant prior knowledge.

What is activate or supply background knowledge?
300

to strategically modulate one’s emotional reactions or states in order to be more effective at coping and engaging with the environment

What is self-regulate?
300
A detailed account of what a student's work should consist of to receive a specific score.
What is a rubric?
400
Proactively designing instruction that addresses variability of all learners and reduces barriers to learning.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
400
Learners differ in ways they perceive and comprehend information.
What is representation?
400

Provide differentiated mentors (i.e., teachers/tutors who use different approaches to motivate, guide, feedback or inform).

What is build fluencies with graduated levels of support for practice and performance?
400

These capabilities allow humans to overcome impulsive, short-term reactions to their environment and instead to set long-term goals, plan effective strategies for reaching those goals, monitor their progress, and modify strategies as needed.

What is provide options for executive functions?

400

Pat uses the following strategies throughout his math lesson to determine what his students know: fist to five, stand-up quick check, a team work-product illustration, and real-word application exit cards. 

What is offer students multiple ways to show what they know?

500
These are found in goals, methods & materials, and assessments.
What are barriers?
500
purposeful and motivate, resourceful and knowledgeable, strategic and goal-directed
What is expert learners?
500

One of the most important things a teacher can do is to create a safe space for learners. One way to do this is to vary the social demands for learners.

What is minimize threats and distractions?

500

Wherever working memory capacity is not construct-relevant in a lesson, it is important to provide a variety of internal scaffolds and external organizational aids—exactly those kinds that executives use—to keep information organized and “in mind.”

What is facilitate managing information and resources?
500

Students will determine at least two emerging themes in the selection and demonstrate plot and theme analysis by creating a summary.

What is a clear, flexible, learning goal?