All of my posts so far have been about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and what I have learned from navigating through some different websites. This morning I was navigating through this site http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/   and came across some videos to watch about UDL. The first video was about Diversity of Learners. The video talked about how "one-size-fits-all" is not an accurate way to teach anymore. Students are diverse in the ways they learn and their behavior. You may also have ESL, or English as a Second Language students in your class. Each student in unique and need alternative methods of teaching to be used to reach all students.
      I really enjoyed this short video because it talks about the diversity of learners before it even gets into talking about how to implement UDL. I believe it is important to understand all your learners and students in your room and the ways they learn so that you can better fit lessons to meet their needs. 

Here is the site for the videos : http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/window.php?src=videos

I also researched the guidelines of UDL. It is interesting to see how I am learning something new on each site. Each site I go on brings me to something new I find out about UDL. It talks about how the goal of education for the 21st century is not to mastery the content but the learning process. Education should help turn novice learners into expert learners—individuals who want to learn, who know how to learn strategically, and who, in their own highly individual and flexible ways, are well prepared for a lifetime of learning.

The UdL guidelines are organized to the three main parts of UDL which I have talked about in previous posts; representation, engagement, and expression. The site gives great examples of how to implement each stage of the UDL principles. The principles guide and give structure to UDL for people to use and be able to implement in their own classes. 

http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines