Education Week: Standards Open the Door for Best Practices From Special Ed. - 0 views
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universal design for learning and response to intervention
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Broadly, universal design for learning is an instructional method that involves creating lessons and classroom materials flexible enough to accommodate different learning styles. And response to intervention is an approach intended to provide early identification of students' learning problems paired with the use of focused lessons—interventions—to address those problems before it's too late.
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"We have an opportunity to sell RTI as a process that helps implement the common core as opposed to this thing you do for special ed.-identification or special education."
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And because the common-core standards are new, the timing is perfect for states to shift to using UDL and RTI,
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Districts already using either or both approaches say there is no question about their benefits for implementing the common-core standards.
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When a science teacher incorporated common-core vocabulary into her lessons, she didn't order students to memorize a list and take a test—a task some students wouldn't be able to manage. Instead, students were able to show they've learned the words using journals, doing some kind of project, or carrying out a computer activity.
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"Kids that initially had trouble with understanding those skills created an activity that demonstrated their mastery,"
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An ideal situation for implementing the common-core standards would be one in which UDL and RTI are employed together
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"UDL is key for RTI. If you're not letting [students] show what they know," Ms. Sabia said, "you're not going to know whether the intervention is working."
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But because of the common-core standards, the attitude about its use and potential has changed dramatically, she said. "For the first time, it's a part of instruction. That is the shift that's being made. The UDL information is no longer just housed in special ed.," Ms. Greer said. "UDL is ... not about special ed.; it's about all learners."
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"UDL is key for RTI. If you're not letting [students] show what they know," Ms. Sabia said, "you're not going to know whether the intervention is working."