PATINS UDL Project

Check out this great web site from PBS (Publics Broadcasting System) that allows you to experience the difficulties that students with learning disabilities and other disabilities face day to day in the classroom. There are opportunities for you to feel your own disabilities in the areas of reading, writing, math, and attention as well as resource information and ideas for helping students with these problems. (Just click on the title “Misunderstood Minds” link to go to the web site.)

There will be a training opportunity this summer…in Boston… at Harvard! I went to this training in 2007, and it was great. You will have the opportunity to meet lots of other people who are trying to implement UDL in their school and learn about many tricks of the trade in making it happen.

The 2009 Universal Design for Learning Institute: Reaching all Learners will be July 6-10, 2009. It will address crucial questions about how to provide full access to the general education curriculum for all learners, especially those with disabilities, through Universal Design for Learning. The week-long training is designed to help educators meet the challenge of teaching diverse learners in inclusive, standards-based classrooms.

Enrollment in this seminar is on a first come, first served basis. There is more information at http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/k12/programs/ude.html