Deepening UDL Practice Through A "UDL Video Club"

Abstract

This session shares findings from a study that explored the potential of a “UDL Video Club” to help teachers deepen their UDL practice. The UDL Video Club included two researchers and two fifth-grade teachers who met regularly to analyze footage from the teachers classrooms. Through-out their eight months of collaboration, the teachers devel-oped an understanding of UDL as they analyzed instruc-tional methods and student thinking through a UDL lens. In this session, the researchers and teachers involved in this study share findings that reveal how the UDL Video Club helped the teachers more readily anticipate barriers to learning, and leverage UDL to reduce those barriers, to refocus on the critical importance of attending to their stu-dents thinking, and to share ideas and develop cross-disciplinary collaboration. The researchers and teachers will then facilitate an exploration of the features of the club that proved especially useful in supporting teacher learn-ing. Finally, session participants will engage in a UDL Video Club simulation and reflect on the potential of this approach in their own schools and districts.