All Blog Posts Tagged 'arts' (6)

Arts and UDL Army, report for duty!

• Are you designing professional development or higher education courses that feature Universal Design for Learning and want some examples of arts options?
• Are you specifically interested in applying UDL to your arts-integration curriculum design?

I have set up a page in the Arts and UDL group that…

This week I would like to feature a great example of how the arts can provide rich meaningful options for engagement, representation, and action and expression. The media file is a record of David Rose's OSEP Project Directors Conference Keynote, July 2011 titled: From Bach to Lady Gaga: Music Lessons for Special Education.

I encourage you to engage with the…

As UDL is applied across various educational settings, we can learn from the experience of others through the sharing of teaching and learning stories. These educative cases can be compelling and richly detailed narratives that guide reflection and teach others through:

• A problem-focused plot
• An analysis of the problems of practice from various perspectives like UDL
• Thoughts and feelings of the educator-writers

This week, I would like to feature the blog postings of my friend and colleague Richard Jenkins. Building on the reflective work featured in the VSA publication Contours of Inclusion, Richard shares his story of inclusive arts teaching and learning with his teaching artist colleagues using the blog of the Teaching Artist Journal.

Thanks for sharing…

In 2009, CAST staff featured a series of case studies of UDL in practice in its UDL Spotlight series using a Wordpress blog. Now in 2011, YOU can post your own material in UDL Connect! Consider putting together short blog entries that highlight your implementation of UDL.…

Hi. Welcome to my UDL Connect blog. In this space I will be sharing ideas and applications related to the implementation of UDL. My first entry will feature some prior work that helped support the generation and sharing of case stories. I hope you will join me in sharing your own work as we figure out what UDL looks like in practice and what it means for learners.

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Prior to my UDL Fellowship award, I was the Director of Outcomes and Evaluation at VSA | Kennedy Center in…