Video: UDL at a glande. (Universal Desing of Learning)

Everybody has a different way of learning, like the fingerprints of our hands, no one has the same ones. Teachers have to take into account that they have to teach in order this diversity of minds.

They also have to think about the barriers that appears in class, so that means the school have to be adapted to all the needs. Not everybody is able to go up stairs for example, so is necessary that the school take it into account and adapt the steps to all the people, disable people, mothers with trolleys or ancient people. By this way there would not be any problem because everybody could go to the school without problems.

This video also tell us something about the neuroscience.

There are three different primary networks:

-Recognition Networks, how we gather facts and categorize what we see, hear and read.

-Strategic Networks, planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express.

-Affective Networks, how children are motivate or become it.

By adapting these three networks to the curriculum, the pupils will understand it better. Everybody is unique, so how we can adapt the curriculum for all? Making a flexible one, that mean we have to take into account the differences of the children. The teacher has to know what the students know before the beginning of the curse, and he also has to be open-minded.

The aim is that the teacher ask the child to do a kind of homework specific for this child, in which he or she could do without any problem, and then they could develop their knowledge. They will also realize their improving and that will be the key to face other challenges.

We can adapt the curriculum to deal with goals, methods, materials, assessments...in order to be helpful for everybody. All of these are tools for the develop of the children, but as they are not unique, we have to know how to use these tools for teaching in a global and specific way at the same time.

We have to be related to the different intelligences. It does not mean that teachers have to isolate one child who did not understand well something, or even if the child is not very good at maths, for example, teacher has to encourage this pupil to do it properly, maybe in a different way, changing the methodology.

Here are some examples:

-Provide multiple means of representation. Present content. (showing them objects, in a manual way)

-Present the content in a multimedia way, by video, taking photos...visual information too. At the same time trying to explain the content to the children, stopping as many times as they need.

-The vocabulary. If it is any word that pupils do not understand, they will be completely lost in the class, so teacher has to explain it to them.

-Give the students the opportunity to say what they have understood and to tell what they think about it, their opinion of one topic.

-Help them risk mistakes and learn from them. It is normal to make mistakes, but teacher has to make them conscious of they could learn from them. Making mistakes is not something embarrassed, it is useful for everyone in the class, because we learn from each other. Teacher have to let students learn from their own mistakes.

-MISTAKES ARE THE STTEPING STONES TO LEARNING-

-Learning in social task. Learning in groups all together.

-We must to conserve the learning interest of children, because this will be the engine for them to improve in all aspects of their lives, not only in school. In my opinion this is a value for improving in their life, once their go out from school.