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Creating Accessible Curriculum with Universal Design for Learning Framework
Physical Education/Health, Special Needs, Equity | Pre-K-12
Movement and motor learning are foundational elements of any child’s physical education. But how do you design a PE curriculum that’s equally accessible to all students, regardless of disability? The answer lies in Universal Design for Learning.
In this course, you will get the tools and confidence you need to create a fully immersive physical education classroom. Using Universal Design for Learning concepts, you’ll learn how to create accessible curriculum, what questions to ask yourself when lesson planning, and how to modify lessons to remove barriers and provide proper supports. In addition, you will explore how best practices for motor learning naturally align with an inclusive and accessible PE curriculum, as well as with multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression.
With the systems and strategies from this course, you will be able to create a classroom environment and curriculum tailored to engage and challenge students of all abilities.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- An understanding of universal design for learning and its application to physical education, especially to improve experiences for students with disabilities
- Tools and resources for inclusive lesson planning in physical education
- Ideas for fostering collaboration with school and community resources to improve equity in physical education
- Strategies to use for equitable instruction and learning environments for students with disabilities
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Evaluate the foundations of universal design for learning (UDL) in the physical education classroom.
- Examine strategies and practices that incorporate multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression into instruction.
- Assess questions to consider before lesson planning for students using UDL framework.
- Collaborate with the available resources and services within the school to support all students.
- Examine how motor learning occurs and why variability in movement is important, is inclusive, and fosters exploration.
- Outline strategies for an environment that removes the barriers to equal opportunity and participation.
- Plan equitable adaptive physical education instruction through the application of the universal design for learning framework.
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