Equity and UDL

I'll start by briefly describing what equity and UDL are. Equity is ensuring that all students get the education that best meets their needs and is best for them. The UNI Department of Special Education did a study and found that "In Iowa, school and post-school outcomes of students with disabilities continue to indicate a critical need to close an achievement gap and to ensure successful and meaningful school and post-secondary learning, living and work opportunities." (coe.uni.edu) This shows that it doesn't just effect schooling, but everything else after as well. They also give a really good definition of UDL, which is "universal design for learning (UDL) has been described as a best practice and a framework to address learning barriers in order to provide challenging, relevant, and access to content for all learners - including those with varied strengths, talents, abilities, linguistics needs and interests." (coe.uni.edu) This goes hand in hand with equity and is in place to help the schools have more equity and get the students what they need.
 This can be effectively integrated into my teaching by making sure I am aware of the needs of each of my students and am doing all in my power to make sure they get the attention and education and is best for them and their situation. This will help my students by ensuring that they are focused and engages with the lessons instead of getting frustrated by not having what they need to learn. My goals to implement this in my classroom is to get to know my students so that I can assess and know their needs to be able to help them and give them the education that is best for them. This will take time and patience, but it will be worth it. Empowered learning is very important and when students have what they need to learn they are empowered and are able to achieve a lot more than we ever imagined.

Source:  https://coe.uni.edu/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/UNI_COE_Thought_Leaders_UDL_Curran_Brennan_Beckman_Kohler_March.2012.pdf

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