Evidence-Based Strategies
- Key focus can be on the meaning of the content
- Focus needs to be something that the student can apply to their lives
- Technology in the classroom for acquisition of new skills, development of fluency and proficiency, maintenance of skills over time, generalizations of skills learned to other settings.
- Stress meaningful content
- Offer opportunities for active involvement in the learning process
- Teach specific strategies (rehearsal, labeling, chunking)
- Teach multiple contexts
- Emphasize self-reliance
- Promote self-management
- Encourage active interaction between student and the environment
- Provide appropriate language models
- Provide opportunities for students to learn language for varied purposes and with different audiences
- Teach sight words including functional applications
- Adapt curriculum to promote success
- Reinforce appropriate behaviors
- Involve peers as classroom role models
- Develop functional writing skills
- Use learning strategies to promote effective studying
- Teach strategies for decoding unknown words
- Train students to be aware of the importance of attention
- Teach students how to actively self-monitor their attention
- Reinforce generalization
- Remind students to apply what they have learned
- Create environment focused on success opportunities
- Focus on learning to learn
- Encourage problem-solving strategies
- Provide opportunities for students to learn language for varied purposes and with different audiences
- Involve students in active learning process (practice, apply, review)
UDL in the Classroom
Particular emphases include:
1. The use of assistive technology
2. The development of curricular adaptations
3. The augmentation of the curriculum
4. The availability of the curricular alternatives
1. The use of assistive technology
2. The development of curricular adaptations
3. The augmentation of the curriculum
4. The availability of the curricular alternatives