Universal Design for Learning aims to make curriculum accessible to all students by considering different learning styles, backgrounds, and abilities. It promotes designing activities with choices, pathways, and multiple means of representation, action and expression, and engagement. The four components - goals, materials, methods, and assessments - should provide variety to support all students. The overall goal is to reduce barriers in curriculum so that all students have an equal chance of success.

1. Universal Design for
Learning
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2. S Definition:
Universal S Taking into
consideration all
Design factors when
designing
something so that is
it usable by all
people with different
backgrounds and
abilities

3. Main S Curriculum should no
longer be designed with
Purposes of only the average learner
in mind
Universal S No such thing as
average
Design S Mainstream curriculum
underserves struggling
students as well as
gifted students
S With universal design
EVERYONE SHOULD
BE A SUCCESSFUL
LEARNER

4. S They must be
How to Make designed to be
universal from the
Activities beginning
Universal S Choices
S Pathways
S Presenting things in
different ways

5. 3 Principles 1. Multiple means of
representation
of Universal
2. Multiple means of
Design for action and
Education expression
3. Multiple means of
engagement

6. 4 1. Goals
Components 2. Materials
of Universal 3. Methods
Design 4. Assessments
S VARIETY in all of
these things is
crucial to success
of all students!

7. Reduce disabilities within the
curriculum in order to give ALL
students the greatest chance for
success!