Kristen is a first grade teacher. Her classroom is very diverse in that she has students with learning disabilities, English language learners, and students who are receiving extra support for literacy. They are learning about the life cycle of a plant. Kristen was able to include reading and science in the same lesson. Students will be reading books about seeds and what plants need to grow. She provided students with several different versions of a similar book as a way to implement UDL in her lessons, print, digital books, audio, and a text to speech device. Not only did she provide students with the supports they needed, everyone in the classroom was allowed to rotate and choose what best fit them. Often times the accommodations are only given to the children with special needs and in Kristen classroom everyone was able to experience the accommodation and make a choice. Click on the link below to see step-by-step how Kristen was able to incorporate UDL in her first grade classroom.
Kristin had ways to implement UDL in her lesson in many different forms. SHe addressed the needs of the students who may have learning disabilities or any other problem the student may occur. I loved how Kristin let the students rotate to use the different types of books (print, digital, audio, and text to speech devices). Since they are first grade students, they may not have had a lot of exposure to these devices so this is a great way to get the students to use and understand the different devices of the books. This also helps because the students who they are really being implemented for won't feel as embarrassed or "different" from the other students because each child in the class is having the opportunity to learn about plants in the different ways the book is presented.
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