Week+3+Reflection

The UDL lesson plan assignment as proven to be a challenge. The design forces you so take a step back and think about every part of your lesson, from your unit's big picture down to the assessments.

This one lesson on river erosion took me over four days to complete. It took time to search for the TEKS I was covering and ensure I included activities for all three networks: strategic, recognition, and affective. I feel the networks are a different way of addressing students learning styles and the ways teachers differentiate for all of our students. The lesson builder also makes you think about the various steps in a lesson: anticipatory set, introducing and modeling new knowledge, guided practice and independent practice. These are not new concepts to teachers, just ideas we need to be reminded of to keep our lessons engaging and involved.

After completing the lesson and reflecting on the time it took to finish, I am left wondering how any elementary teacher can do this for four subjects everyday. I guess with practice the process does not take as much time.

I did a little research to help both meet the needs of the three networks, and to make sure technology was used in my final lesson. United Streaming clip on water erosion []

Link to UDL lesson []

Link to UDL book on water erosion titled Washed Away []