UDL Guidelines – Educator Checklist
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Your notes
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Feature: The information on the board is very organized as
well as on the handout.
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Barrier: The directions are spoken and they listen to a
video as well. While there are directions on the handout, the students may
not grasp the information. A text-to-speech could help the students as well
as a tutorial that is completely written with captioning.
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Feature: There are pictures of the students and planets on
the board. The planets are in the correct order and the class completes a
written example on the board together.
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Feature: Planets pictures are symbols for the planets. There
is also a symbol that the students know for the ordinal numbers in Spanish.
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Feature: Examples of correct syntax are written on the
handout, are spoken and are written on the board during the lesson.
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Barrier: The examples are written in Spanish, with
directions in English. The lesson is taught completely in Spanish.
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Feature: Two languages are used an many components of a language
such as speaking, writing, listening and some reading.
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Feature: Students can see the pictures of their classmates
on the pictures as well as visualize the order of the planets.
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Feature: Students view a video and all vocabulary from the
unit is incorporated as well as grammar from the past unit.
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Feature: Students can visualize the order as well as who
is on which planet.
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Feature: The students first hear the example, then they
see it written, then they write it, then they speak it. This is how language
is learned.
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Feature: The student’s pictures provide meaning as well as
the repetition and use of the verb Estar.
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Your notes
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Feature: Students are responding
through speech as well as in writing.
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Barrier: The students cannot
really build upon the material. They
interact with each other and their teaching in various ways. This is a
barrier because the students are structured in the creation of their
sentences and only one answer is correct.
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Barrier: No assistive technologies
are integrated in the lesson.
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Barrier: The students are only
able to communicate by writing down their answer, sharing it and writing the
response. Students are not able to “create anything” so it is a barrier.
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Barrier: Students are only able to
“plug and chug” the information into a sentence on the handout. It is a
barrier because there are no means for creative expression .
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Feature: Students are building
upon material that they learned in previous units (Estar).
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Feature: The students want to finish
and be correct so the teacher can “save them” off of the planet.
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Feature: The lesson is built up by
having an engaging video of a dog traveling to the planets and then the
students are left there. There is a build up to the end when the teacher “saves
them” off of the planets.
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Feature: There is not a lot of
information or resources besides the video, handout and pictures of the
planets/ students.
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Barrier: The students can only be
monitored by the teacher walking around. If the class has 30 students, it
will be difficult to effectively monitor progress so it is a barrier.
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Your notes
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Barrier: The only individual choice is to write which
planet they are on. All the answers will be exactly the same except for that
one between all the students.
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Feature: Actual pictures of all students are included on
the planets. All of the students’ names are to be written in the answer, not
just “the girls”.
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Barrier: The students will want to come up and see the pictures.
They will be excited to see the pictures and may comment on their appearances
instead of worrying about completing the assignment.
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Barrier: The lesson does not address the higher order
thinking skills and the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. This is a barrier
because critical thinking skills are not being used.
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Barrier: There is no differentiation between the learners.
There is no enrichment in the lesson either.
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Feature: The students have to work together to tell the
teacher and write the sentences on the board so they can be “saved” by the
teacher.
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Feature: The students are able to practice constructing the
sentences using the correct syntax of the target language. They have to use
correct noun and verb usage.
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Feature: The
students are expected to finish and have a goal to so that they can be rescued
from the planet.
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Barrier: There is
no high level of problem solving. The lesson is very basic and there are not
many strategies that are able to be employed to complete the lesson.
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Barrier: They are
only able to reflect if their answers were correct. There is no extension of
the lesson.
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While going through the checklist I realized that my lesson is "fun" and engaging. While that is good to have in a lesson, there is no differentiation, places of support, enrichment or many ways for the students to interact with the material. There is no extension of the lesson beyond itself. I created the lesson knowing my learners, but the lesson was not designed so that every teacher could use the exact same lesson and be successful The lesson was not created for universal learners. There was not an overwhelming amount of barriers in any section but only a few had overwhelming features. While looking at the primary principles of UDL, not all are met. There are not multiple means of expression. The students are expected to be able to say and write the answer. All answers are expected to be the same except for one. I think that the means of engagement are substantial because they are engaged by the pictures of them and the planets, the video as well as the concept of being rescued and the personalization at the end. For the means of representation, the information is presented through the pictures and in the handout that includes the questions. The information is not presented in many ways for the students since the same information is only presented in one way. This lesson does not meet enough of the checklist of be considered UDL.
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