Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning 1st Edition

I am ordering two more copies for my daughter and my great niece who are first-year teachers. I think this book is extremely valuable. It is user-friendly - which means the author understands both worlds- the world of education and how we want information and the world of universal design for learning..Bravo Dr. Loui Lord Nelson.

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This book is well-structured with vivid working examples to illustrate every checkpoint. guideline and principle of UDL. For teachers who want to improve their teaching quality, I highly recommend this book to them. After reading this book, teachers would naturally reflect on their own teaching design, since they empathize with Anthony and many other teachers in the book. And because the author has an insight with typical problems in current classroom teaching, and she analyze and suggest under UDL principles; teachers can also decompose their current teaching plan, recalibrate it to meet UDL.However, this book is not particularly for online learning design. Some methods are a little bit obsolete, such as "cloze" mentioned in the guideline "provide options for executive function". Maybe it was because the author is knowledgeable in the field of Special Education, she tend to provide the most practical methods in-classroom teaching. Although UDL is "universal", we still need to look for more examples about how to apply UDL on internet space.

It will be great to include more specific strategies for each part of the guidelines, such as more specific approach to promote engagement, sample activities or lessons. Teaches need to see how the lesson is delivered to make sure there is effective engagement! It would also suggest making connections with DOK levels with lesson goals.