Empowering Learners with UDL in ELA
May 2, 2018 | 6:00-6:30pm PT / 9:00-9:30pm ET (UTC-4)
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We have some EXTRA special guest hosts this week, #UDLfam! Our friends at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School will be tweeting out the questions via @ELAPKY and participating as their awesome selves: @BlakeBeckettPKY, @fundorf, @JCheveallierPKY, @CodyMillerELA, and @TeamBoehm. Our topic? Empowering learners with Universal Design for Learning in secondary English language arts.
Questions:
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Q1: What role does the ELA class play in empowering learners? What are we empowering them to do?
Q2: Now that we’ve established why we’re empowering our students, let’s explore how that’s done with UDL. What UDL moves have you made in your practice to empower your students?
Q3: As a department, we believe ELA as a content area is a vehicle to address injustices in the world. In what ways does social justice intersect with UDL?
Q4: Sharing time! What resources have you explored recently to grow your thinking about empowering learners?
So what's this #UDLchat all about?
#UDLchat is a bi-monthly Twitter chat focused on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). We are a virtual community of practitioners, enthusiasts, and evangelists eager to discuss resources, successes, and challenges in implementing UDL in a wide variety of environments and contexts.
Join us every 1st & 3rd Wednesday from 6-6:30pm PT / 9-9:30pm ET (UTC-4) for a rapid-fire learning-focused chat, and build your PLN!
New to Twitter Chats?
Here are some great resources to help you get started!
- Edublogs Teacher Challenges: Participate in Twitter Chats
- The Social Media Coach: How to Participate in a Twitter Chat
- Twubs: #UDLchat - Lots of #UDLchat participants use Twubs to keep track of the fast-paced conversation. Twubs has great tools to speed up or slow down the pace of the tweets, and if you log in using your Twitter account, it adds the hashtag to your tweets for you!
- Participate Learning's New Chat Beta - Another great way to keep track of the chat and help collect all the great resources we post.
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