2. Lesson Plan I used:
http://express.smarttech.com/?url=http://exchangedownloads.smarttech
.com/public/content/41/41b89f26-893e-4636-9fd2-
8ab6fa6a99c3/Adjectives%20(Karen%20Rodemoyer%20Smart%20Competitio
n).notebook#
Grade level: 2nd grade
Subject: English language Arts
4. Smart Boards follow UDL Approach because they provide flexibility,
reduce barriers in instruction, provide accommodations and includes
students with disabilities and ELL students (Alnahdi, G, pg.14).
5. Universal Design for learning benefits
students with and without disabilities
(Morningstar, Shogren, Lee & Born,
pg.193)
Image 3. TES: The Largest Network of Teachers in the World,
2017.
6. How I will use the resources of the Smart Board lesson
plan "Introducing Adjectives”
• I will use this lesson plan for my future class.
• Positive Things I noticed in the lesson plan are:
1. starting the lesson plan off with an interesting YouTube video
2. Giving many definitions and examples of the topics
3. Using Interactive games and activities, that all children can participate in
4. Using voice recordings
5. playing games that go along with subject matter
6. Many pictures & Visual aids
7. Allows students to use multiple skills
How I will change the lesson plan
Include other native languages present in my classroom
7. How the lesson/resources I found support Universal
Design:
1. Lesson gives flexibility in the way information is presented, how the
Students engage, and in the way students respond of demonstrate knowledge.
• Students play many games and are able to touch the board
• listen to voice recordings
• watch videos
• make their own sentences using adjectives
• Pick adjectives out of a story
• Group work
2. Reduces barriers in instruction, provides accommodations, and maintains
higher achievement expectations for all students, including students with
disabilities and Ell students.
• Help students with hearing disabilities by highlighting text
• Level of challenge is differentiate in the games
• Collaboration of all students
• Uses different voice recordings, to keep children interested
8. References
Alnahdi, Ghaleb. (2014). Assistive Technology In Special Education And The Universal Design For Learning.
The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 13(2), 18-23. retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.
gov/fulltext/EJ1022880.pdf
Born, K., Lee, H., Morningstar, M.E., & Shogren, K.A. (2015). Preliminary Lessons About Supporting
Participation and Learning in Inclusive Classrooms. Research and Practice for Persons with Server
Disabilities, 40(3), 192-210. DOI: 10.1177/1540796915594158
Image 1. Kjarrett. (Photographer). (2011, April 19). SMART Boards Could Revolutionize the Classroom.
(digital image). Retrieved from http://www.joetech.com/smart-boards-could-revolutionize-the-
classroom/
Image 2. Lindsey Petlak, (Photograph). (2014, Jan 8). 100th Day Ideas and Freebies. Scholastic. (digital
image). Retrieved from https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/lindsey-petlak/100th-
day-ideas-and-freebies/
Image 3. TES: The Largest network of teachers in the world. (Photographer). (2017). Universal-Design-
4-Learning. Impact of UDL. (digital image). Retrieved from https://universal-design-4-learning.
wikispaces.com/Impact+of+UDL
