This week I dove into two pretty giant terms Universal Design for Learning and Intersectionality. I started off feeling like they couldn’t be more different but as I’m rounding out my research I’m finding they are more similar than I thought. If you take anything away from this please be that UDL and Intersectionality are both ideas teachers should be thinking about in the planning process of their lesson, not the reflection.
Students in our classrooms are becoming increasingly different from each other. They may be different races, speak different languages, or come from different socioeconomic backgrounds. They also could like race cars, barbies, or dinosaurs. While comparing race to race cars sounds strange, they are both pieces of information that are important for a teacher when planning a lesson. She wouldn’t want to make a student feel uncomfortable during a lesson because of their race, and the same goes for their interest in race cars. Take a listen to my podcast as I explore how my thoughts on UDL and Intersectionality evolved this week and even some examples from my first grade classroom. Here's to being #armed&ready for a new group of students!
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