Recruiting Interest:

CAST (2018). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2. Retrieved from http://udlguidelines.cast.org

Minimize threats and distractions:

  • create a classroom that allows students to have flexible seating, minimal distractions, soft lighting
  • Ensure that there are minimal things on the wall
  • Only have what is necessary: class rules/routines for example. They are necessary as reminders, but there is no need for other “personal” touches to be spread out everywhere
  • Ensure that there is minimal background distractions
  • How can you make a sensory smart classroom? What changes need to be made?
  • Allow for sensory/body breaks
  • Allow for different areas of the classroom to provide different opportunities for breaks (peace corner, under the desk, quiet corner)
  • Allow students to take accountability and ownership of the classroom by helping to organise it

How can you recruit interest?

  • Find access points for all learners
  • Teach to the side pins, you will be able to reach all learners
  • Be authentic with the lessons, what is the purpose?
  • Allow for students to have choice: show how they learned, to complete the tasks. Allow of a variety of ways for students to complete a task

Highlight/Celebrate:

  • be sure to celebrate what is being done, be authentic and specific