Universal Design for Learning: Implications for Assessment

1. Universal Design for Learning: Implications for Assessment Minnesota UDL Cadre August 15 & 16, 2007 Bob Dolan & Tracey Hall

2. The UDL CADRE The goal of the UDL CADRE is to learn skills to improve student achievement through access to the general curriculum for students with varying abilities. The UDL CADRE teams are implementing a model to of UDL with support, including tools and on-going training from MDE.

3. Goals for Training • Let's Think UDL: Checkpoints and Exemplars • Analyze current standards in reading, science and math • Develop strategies to teach to those standards in a UDL classroom • Develop strategies to assess student performance against those standards in a UDL classroom • Discuss strategies for evangelical championing of everything UDL to anyone who will listen (and even those who won’t)

4. Goals for Training • Let's Think UDL: Checkpoints and Exemplars • Analyze current standards in reading, science and math • Develop strategies to teach to those standards in a UDL classroom • Develop strategies to assess student performance against those standards in a UDL classroom • Strategies for dissemination

5. Universal Design for Learning Checkpoints

6. Goals for Training • Let's Think UDL: Checkpoints and Exemplars • Analyze current standards in reading, science and math • Develop strategies to teach to those standards in a UDL classroom • Develop strategies to assess student performance against those standards in a UDL classroom • Strategies for dissemination

7. Process • Large group: Model standards evaluation process based upon Arts standards. • Breakout groups by Cadre teams • Choose content area and grade range. • Evaluate three standards. • Large group: Share findings by content area

8. Arts Standards • Understand and use the artistic processes to create and perform in at least two of the three arts areas required to be offered by a school from the following: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

9. Content Area: Arts Grade Range: 6-8 Understand and use the artistic processes to create and perform in at least two of the three arts areas required to be offered by a school from the following: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

10. MN UDL Cadre Working Document Content Area: Arts Grade Range: 6-8

11. CAST Starter Suggestions Content Area: Arts Grade Range: 6-8 Understand and use the artistic processes to create and perform in at least two of the three arts areas required to be offered by a school from the following: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

12. Goals for Training • Let's Think UDL: Checkpoints and Exemplars • Analyze current standards in reading, science and math • Develop strategies to teach to those standards in a UDL classroom • Develop strategies to assess student performance against those standards in a UDL classroom • Strategies for dissemination

13. Process • Large group: Model application of UDL to instruction in Art. • Breakout groups by Cadre teams • Choose content area and grade range. • Evaluate three standards. • Large group: Share findings by content area

14. Instruction Content Area: ____ Grade Range: ___ Standard: ______ Understand and use the artistic processes to create and perform in at least two of the three arts areas required to be offered by a school from the following: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

15. MN UDL Cadre Working Document Instruction Content Area: Arts Grade Range: 6-8 Standard: 3501.0630 Understand and use the artistic processes to create and perform in at least two of the three arts areas required to be offered by a school from the following: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

16. Goals for Training • Let's Think UDL: Checkpoints and Exemplars • Analyze current standards in reading, science and math • Develop strategies to teach to those standards in a UDL classroom • Develop strategies to assess student performance against those standards in a UDL classroom • Strategies for dissemination

17. Process • Large group: Model application of UDL to assessment in Art. • Breakout groups by Cadre teams • Choose content area and grade range. • Evaluate three standards. • Large group: Share findings by content area

18. Assessment Content Area: _____ Grade Range: ___ Standard: ______

19. MN UDL Cadre Working Document Assessment (Page 1 of 3) Content Area: _____ Grade Range: ___ Standard: ______

20. MN UDL Cadre Working Document Assessment (Page 2 of 3) Content Area: _____ Grade Range: ___ Standard: ______

21. MN UDL Cadre Working Document Assessment (Page 3 of 3) Content Area: _____ Grade Range: ___ Standard: ______

22. Goals for Training • Let's Think UDL: Checkpoints and Exemplars • Analyze current standards in reading, science and math • Develop strategies to teach to those standards in a UDL classroom • Develop strategies to assess student performance against those standards in a UDL classroom • Strategies for evangelical championing of everything UDL to anyone who will listen(and even those who won’t)

23. CAST: PD Resources http://www.cast.org/pd/resources/index.html

24. CAST: Teaching Every Student http://www.cast.org/tes/ http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/toolkits/tk_introduction.cfm?tk_id=101

25. CITEd http://www.cited.org/

26. K-8 Access Center http://www.k8accesscenter.org/

27. Additional Teacher Resources from CAST

28. CAST: Lesson Builder http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/

29. CAST: Book Builder http://bookbuilder.cast.org/

30. Contact information: http://www.cast.org Bob: bdolan@cast.org Tracey: thall@cast.org Grace: gmeo@cast.org Skip: sstahl@cast.org (781) 245-2212