Albuquerque Public Schools
UDL Learning Guidelines
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way of thinking about teaching and learning in order to give all students an equal opportunity for success. UDL provides flexibility in the ways students access and engage with materials and show what they know.
Learning Guidelines
Engagement
Affective Networks: The why of learning, for purposeful, motivated learners, stimulate interest and motivation for learning.
Engagement Options to Provide
Welcoming Interests & Identities
- Optimize choice and autonomy
- Optimize relevance, value and authenticity
- Nurture joy and play
- Address biases, threats and distractions
Sustaining Effort & Persistence
- Clarify the meaning and purpose of goals
- Optimize challenge and support
- Foster collaboration, interdependence and collective learning
- Foster belonging and community
- Offer action-oriented feedback
Emotional Capacity
- Recognize expectations, beliefs and motivation
- Develop awareness of self and others
- Promote individual and collective reflection
- Cultivate empathy and restorative practice
Representation
Recognition Networks: The what of learning, for resourceful, knowledgeable learners, present information and content in different ways.
Representation Options to Provide
Perception
- Support opportunities to customize the display of information
- Support multiple ways to perceive information
- Represent a diversity of perspectives and identities in authentic ways
Language & Symbols
- Clarify vocabulary, symbols and language structures
- Support decoding of text, mathematical notation and symbols
- Cultivate understanding and respect across languages and dialects
- Address biases in the use of language and symbols
- Illustrate through multiple media
Building Knowledge
- Connect prior knowledge to new learning
- Highlight and explore patterns, critical features, big ideas and relationships
- Cultivate multiple ways of knowing and making meaning
- Maximize transfer and generalization
Action and Expression
Strategic Networks: The how of learning, for strategic, goal-directed learners, differentiate the ways that students can express what they know.
Action and Expression Options to Provide
Interaction
- Vary and honor the methods for response, navigation and movement
- Optimize access to accessible materials and assistive and accessible technologies and tools
Expression & Communication
- Use multiple media for communication
- Use multiple tools for construction, composition and creativity
- Build fluencies with graduated support for practice and performance
- Address biases related to modes of expression and communication
Strategy Development
- Set meaningful goals
- Anticipate and plan for challenges
- Organize information and resources
- Enhance capacity for monitoring progress
- Challenge exclusionary practices