This document discusses Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its application in art education. UDL aims to minimize barriers and maximize learning opportunities for all students by understanding how learning is distributed across recognition, strategic, and affective networks in the brain. The document provides examples of how UDL can be implemented in the art room, such as providing multiple means of presentation, expression, and engagement. It emphasizes that flexibility and stimulating learning across all three networks is key to creating inclusive curriculum through a UDL framework.

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Universal Design in the
Art Education Curriculum
Improving our teaching methods by minimizing
barriers in order to maximize learning opportunities
for all students.

2. + What is Universal Design for Learning?

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Universal Design for Learning
The concept of UDL is the intersection where
all our initiatives – integrated units, multi-
sensory teaching, multiple
intelligences, differentiated instruction, use of
computers in schools, performance-based
assessment, and others – come together.
Donna Palley, Special Education Coordinator/
Technology Specialist

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What does UDL look like in Art
Education?

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UDL is about minimizing barriers for
ALL students
UDL means we are proactive…not reactive.

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UDL for the art room
ADHD students
 “Quiet place” for trouble with concentrating
 Advanced notice for transitions
 Goals posted
 Table Captains
 Extra time for assignments
 Private message box for questions
 Offering students ability to stand while working
Just as we prepare in advance for “lefties”, we can also be proactive
in removing barriers for other student populations

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Understanding the Learning Brain
Learning is distributed across three interconnected networks.
Recognition
Networks
“What?”
Strategic
Networks
“How?”
Affective
Networks
“Why?”

8. + Recognition Networks: The “what” of learning
Perception and comprehension. The way students
gather facts and categorize what they see, hear and
read.
UDL: provide multiple ways of presenting information
Strategic Networks: The “how” of learning
Physical action. The way students organize and express
ideas
UDL: provide multiple ways for students to communicate
the goal of the lesson.
Affective Networks: The “why” of learning
Motivation. The ways students become engaged and
stay motivated
UDL: provide multiple means for stimulating interest

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How might this change our teaching
methods?
 Learners are not simply “disabled” or “bright”
 Learners differ within and across all three brain networks, showing
shades of strength and weakness that make each of them unique.
 Understanding the unique strengths and differences of individual
students can help us to create flexible curriculums that help all
students to succeed.
 Teachers must evaluate how we teach based on how our students
learn.
 Individual brain differences means no single, traditional
instructional method will work for all students.

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FLEXIBILITY is the key

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Stretch Break!!!!

13. + Art Education tends to be a subject
that falls naturally into the UDL
model.
 Varying tools and media and also providing a variety of
options for action and expression satisfies the
Strategic Network.

14. + Art Education tends to be a subject
that falls naturally into the UDL
model.
 Projects where the goal is specific but broad enough for each
student to communicate individual feelings, choices and
personal reflections naturally provide motivation as the
means to satisfy the Engagement Network.

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How can Art Educators better stimulate
learning in the Recognition Network?
Presenting the material in the
old way may not keep our
students’ attention.
“ Today’s teachers have to learn to communicate in the
language and style of their students.”
- Marc Prensky, founder of The Digital Multiplier, an organization
dedicated to eliminating the digital divide in learning worldwide.

16. +How can Art Educators better stimulate
learning in the Recognition Network to
support UDL?
 By providing multiple and stimulating means of presenting
information, we can better engage the Recognition Network. In
this way, we can harness the attention of all of our students
and also stimulate their enthusiasm.

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Presentation technology available
for art education
LCD projectors
continue to be
invaluable for
providing the
means to present
videos, photograp
hs and live
projections.

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Presentation technology available
for art education
Even with low cost digital
cameras, stunning
photographs of visual aides for
lessons can be created to
further establish a concept.

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Presentation technology available
for art education
Lumens Ladibug
High Definition
Document Camera

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Cool tools for student use
Fakebook

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Cool tools for student use
Tagxedo

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In Conclusion, UDL is a framework
for making curriculum more
inclusive by...
 Creating a curriculum built to encompass all learners, not just
the “average” learner
 Being proactive
 Discovering barriers to leaning
 Being flexible and providing options in our curriculum design
 Teaching in a manner that encompasses the way the students
of today learn.