This week, we are exploring the sustaining effort and persistence aspect of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. We'll go over the four key checkpoints within effort and persistence as well as explain how you can start to implement some ideas in your classroom.

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• CAST.org - Universal Design for Learning framework
• How to get students thinking - E110
• Sparking Excitement and Curiosity for Learning - E108
• Four checkpoints:
  • Heighten salience of goals and objectives
  • Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge
  • Foster collaboration and community
  • Increase mastery-oriented feedback
• Goals and Objectives:
  • I can statements are a great start, have students re-state objectives in their own words
  • Big picture to small objectives - what steps can we take?
  • Use planner documents, scaffolds
  • Engage learners in assessment discussions, rubric creation, review of exemplars
• Vary Demands and Resources:
  • Knowing that learners vary in abilities and skills
  • Knowing your learners, background knowledge, learned experiences
  • Differentiation!
  • Implementing Mastery Learning by Thomas Guskey
  • Lots of parallels with mastery-based learning - all students can succeed
  • Lesson classifications - Modern Classrooms Project
• Collaboration & Community:
  • Feeling safe in the classroom = engagement
  • Self-pacing and ungrading helps!
  • Peer interactions and support
  • Provide prompts for asking questions, using ask 3 before me and other structures
  • Group work norms - great 1st week activity
  • School-wide programs that are differentiated?
• Mastery Feedback:
  • Constructive, timely, specific, focus on learning and improvement
  • Focus on the skills you want students to improve on
  • Build strategies for future success
  • Specifications Grading - E107
  • Our Favourite Formative Assessment Tools - E101
  • Descriptive Feedback to Boost Student Learning - E091

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