UDL Now!: A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today's Classrooms

by Katie Novak EdD, David H Rose Ed.D (Foreword by)

Overview

In this revised and expanded edition of the bestseller UDL Now! Katie Novak provides practical insights and savvy strategies for helping all learners meet high standards using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Novak shows how to use the UDL Guidelines to plan lessons, choose materials, assess learning, and improve instructional practice. Novak discusses key concepts such as scaffolding, vocabulary-building, and using student feedback to inform instruction. She also provides tips on recruiting students as partners in the teaching process and engaging them in how they learn. UDL Now! is a fun and effective Monday-morning playbook for great teaching.

David Rose, Co-Founder of CAST and a principal architect of the UDL framework and guidelines, writes in his Foreword: “Katie Novak’s well-articulated know-how about how to put UDL into practice has helped many thousands of educators. However, rather than rest on that success, Katie has done what expert learners and expert teachers do: She has reflected on her own performance and asked, “What can I do better? How can I make my point clearer? What have I learned from those many practitioners I have met and worked with in the past couple of years?’ Throughout this book, you’ll find the answers to those and other questions. The result is a bigger and better book.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930583665
Publisher:	CAST Professional Publishing
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Edition description:	Second Edition, Second edition
Pages:	238
Sales rank:	520,787
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Katie Novak, Ed.D., is an internationally renowned education consultant as well as a practicing leader in education as an Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts. With 18 years of experience in teaching and administration, an earned doctorate in curriculum and teaching, and 7 books published. Katie designs and presents workshops both nationally and internationally focusing on implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and universally designed leadership. Dr. Novak is the author of Revised and Expanded Edition: UDL Now! A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today's Classrooms, which has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide. Two of her other publications, of which she is a co-author, have been endorsed by leading professors in the field of education and state departments of education. UDL in the Cloud was endorsed by the Executive Director of The Initiative on Learning and Teaching at MIT while Mitchell Chester, the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), endorsed Universally Designed Leadership. Innovate Inside the Box has landed as #1 on Amazon's Best Seller's List for Education. Novak's work in UDL has impacted educators worldwide as her contributions and collaborations have built upon the foundation for an educational framework that is critical for student success. Partnering with her for professional development will ensure an engaging, motivating experience that will improve the practice of all educators in attendance. Connect @katienovakudl.

Table of Contents

Foreword David H. Rose v

Preface to the Revised Edition vii

Introduction ix

1 UDL and Reality TV Collide 1

2 The UDL Guidelines for Educators 13

A Planning Tool You Can't Live Without

3 Shining a Light on Engagement 31

4 Recruiting and Engaging Students as UDL Partners 41

5 Next-Generation Skills in Today's Classrooms 83

6 Two Types of Learning Standards and UDL Implementation 97

7 Choice Assignments 113

Expressing Knowledge in Endless Ways

8 Scaffolding 141

Setting the Bar High and Raising Students to it

9 The Best Ways to Teach Vocabulary 171

10 Using Student Feedback to Inform Instruction 183

11 Assessments the UDL Way 193

(Yes, Standardized Assessments, Too!)

12 Technology Helps! 203

A UDL Resources 211

B Professional Learning Community Resources 213

C PLC Assignment Rubrics 215

References 217

About the Author 221

Acknowledgments 223

Index 225

Editorial Reviews

"This revised and expanded edition of UDL Now! is a timely and welcome addition to the growing literature about Universal Design for Learning. Katie Novak's well-articulated know-how about how to put UDL into practice has helped many thousands of educators." - David H. Rose (from the Foreword)

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