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UDL – What We Know and How to Grow? √ §

Part of the FDC Diverse Classroom & Advanced Topics Series!

Location

Online

Date & Time

April 19, 2022, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

Please join us to workshop pedagogical strategies for cultivating an accessible classroom culture through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). While open to all who are interested, this Advanced Topics session targets teaching faculty and staff who are fluent in the UDL framework but would like the space to develop new strategies for implementation, alongside colleagues. Participants are encouraged to share their own successes and challenges with UDL, and then work with each other to establish plans for increasing the means of content representation, engagement, and action/expression in their current or upcoming course(s). This session is a venue to share, and build upon, approaches that go beyond traditional academic accommodations to further promote inclusion of our broadly diverse learners.

Please click “Going Virtually” below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.

√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate

Part of The Diverse Classroom Series
Launched in February 2017!

Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
  • How can you learn about your classroom audience to better connect with your students and reflect on their learning needs?
  • How can you make your classroom more hospitable for all learners?
  • How can you handle sensitive discussions in your classroom?
  • How can you ensure that students from different academic and social backgrounds and with different physical and cognitive abilities experience classrooms where they are welcomed, challenged, and supported?
All faculty are welcome to attend, especially those who...
  • aspire to make their classrooms more inclusive of our diverse student population.
For additional resources, see https://calt.umbc.edu/teaching/the-diverse-classroom/.

The Advanced Topics Series
Launched in September 2021!


Sessions in this series are designed to delve deeper into special topics that synthesize multiple research-based ideas for cultivating student learning. During these sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will support your efforts to energize your classroom with classic and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches that will help you to...
  • Identify how to integrate complex learning science applications into your course design and delivery,
  • Challenge your higher order thinking skills to investigate and assess new ways to foster student success, and
  • Connect and collaborate with colleagues seeking to create exemplary learning exercises and environments across courses and learning opportunities.
All faculty are welcome to attend, especially those who...
  • aspire to complicate and build on core pedagogical knowledge shared in other FDC programs, or
  • wish to cultivate and apply learning research to innovative, engaging, and effective classroom practices.
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