Through completing this course and the assignments each week, I now realize that I have already been differentiating within my inclusion classroom. I was not familiar with Universal Design for Learning but was also implementing most of the principles from that as well. Now that I am familiar and comfortable with UDL principles and strategies I will begin to make sure my lessons are designed with UDL and DI as the main focus so that all of my students will experience academic success in my classroom. I will continue to use technology to enhance the curriculum that my students are learning and use that as my main tool for differentiating. I plan to place a huge emphasis on getting to know each one of my students so that I can provide differentiation based on their strengths, interests, and learning profiles. One goal that I have set for myself is to continue researching and implementing new technological resources that are available to me and stay on top of new technology trends.
I have sincerely enjoyed this course and am thankful that we have our differentiation station groups so that all of my resources can be stored in one place. I am currently working on placing those resources on our schools server so that they are available to all of the teachers in my building. I am also planning on presenting my UDL presentation to our faculty to help other teachers become familiar with this information. I know that the best thing I can do with all of the knowledge I have gained from this course is to put it into practice and share it with others.
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