In the marketplace we call our society, where you can buy 37\ndifferent types of yogurt, toothbrushes for anyone from infants to budgies,\nwhere scanning and shopping and choosing can actually overwhelm us, and where\nwe consistently feel the pressure to stand out from the crowd, any suggestion\nof providing options can feel that same as a mildly anaesthetized 6-month-old\nplunked in front of Paw Patrol for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And since providing options and choice is a central tenet of\nUniversal Design for Learning, threshing out the (what you think is) 37\nflavours of yogurt aspect of the framework can feel exhausting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is so much work and so much individual attention and NOW YOU WANT ME TO PROVIDE OPTIONS? AND CHOICE? AGAIN? MORE? WHy ThO SeAnnA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So I\u2019m going to keep this short and I\u2019m going to keep this\nsweet because I\u2019m already feeling like an anaesthetized 6-month old by the\nholidays approaching and would really prefer a nap amongst the Ferrero Rocher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planning\nfor choice in your course is not like throwing the doors open to 37 types of\nyogurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planning for choice in your course is more like deciding between vanilla or blueberry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Planning for choice sounds like soliciting feedback from\nstudents on the five top concepts they found valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planning for choice means that of those top concepts, they\ncan choose two for assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planning for choice means that you can offer either short\nanswer or long answer; multiple choice or essay; take home or in-class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planning for choice means that in the time provided, they\ncan rehearse and get feedback on their presentation or get feedback on exam\nprep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vanilla or blueberry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have planned and there are problems and there are\n1456 emails about assignment 2 and nobody is reading the course presentation\nand you are calling Accessibility Services and you have a bimodal distribution\nof grades and classroom discussions feel more like your UDL consultant napping\namongst the Ferrero Rocher then your first step is to provide (limited,\nfeedback-based) choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n DO NOT PLAN SOMETHING ELSE\/BETTER\/MORE INSPIRING. PLAN OPTIONS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you like about the material?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What would a valuable assessment look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are your two choices: multiple choice or short answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vanilla or blueberry.<\/strong> Not 37, two or three. Vanilla or blueberry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aaaaand rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the marketplace we call our society, where you can buy 37 different types of yogurt, toothbrushes for anyone from infants to budgies, where scanning and shopping and choosing can actually overwhelm us, and where we consistently feel the pressure to stand out from the crowd, any suggestion of providing options can feel that same…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-universal-design-for-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}