Dear Minerva Rosas,

I've been studying about learning and teaching strategies since 5 years ago. I don't know well the Universal Design for Learning, but in teorethical terms, I think it can be a way to meke the learning and teaching processes centralized in students individual needs for learning. Thus, it seems to me that this strategy can demand more of the teacher, once is necessary to pay even more atention to each student.

But I think it can be great, if the student is comitted with its own learning process.

I can't speak for foreign language instruction, but I ascribe to it for science education and have found it very helpful in planning for diverse classrooms. The UDL Guidelines recently underwent revision (UDL 2.2 found at: http://udlguidelines.cast.org/) and I think it is much easier to understand and implement using this graphic. Science does have quite a bit of vocabulary and much of the UDL helps teachers to present this information using multiple media and helps students to organize information. Good luck!

Thank you for your input! I have to support two of my pre-service students who are going to conduct a research project trying to improve secondary students' oral production by taking into account the Universal Design for Learning. That's why I'm trying to get all the information available to help them.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate different types of individual learning from one student to another. This philosophy is achieved in education in the advanced stages of curriculum planning and the educational system of each country as well as in the planning of school management and access to the teacher in the classroom to allow all students to access the general approach.

Best Regards @ Minerva Rosas