Day 1

Over the course of this degree one of the things that I have grown to appreciate are the classes that give me something that I can take directly back to my school to share with my colleagues, things that we can incorporate into our daily lessons and techniques and tools that we can use to make learning easier for all of our students.  While I was unfamiliar with the term Universal Design for Learning, the more that I have read, and from the discussion in class it is something that I was already familiar with.  I think being able to share with the staff at my school will help us continue and expand our focus on inclusion.  When we hear inclusion we often think of students with obvious special needs and designing plans and finding technologies that benefit them.  I think that UDL reminds us to continue looking and working towards ways to make learning more accessible for all of our students.
I've already begun sharing the things that I have taken from this course with the other teachers in my school, including working with another teacher to use the app placemat to find an app that will help one of our students with a degenerative disease use an ipad for his writing in class.  We haven't found the perfect one yet but feel were on the right track where before we were having trouble even getting started.