Exemplar - This is Me - Communicating Pedagogical Beliefs

Teachers at Meghan's school are engaging in a professional exercise to build collaborative practice and develop school-wide pedagogical agreements. In this first phase, teachers are asked to share out their pedagogical passions including sharing a lesson plan and assessment that exemplifies those beliefs.

Compared with a top-down directive approach to school-wide agreements, this approach beginning with teacher interests and passion should optimize motivation and interest in the work.

UDL means designing instruction and assessment from the perspective of our most disadvantaged students because those accommodations and modifications are likely good for most other students as well.

Why we learn - multiple means of engagement

What we learn - multiple means of representation

How we learn - multiple means of action and expression

Meghan struggles with professional  confidence and is not a digital native.

Teachers were allowed to share their thoughts through any medium they chose including, but not limited, to google doc, presentation, video, etc. Meghan chose to use Book Creator to share her passion for UDL to push herself to try new applications. She found it gave her ways to practice UDL in this project. 

Meghan substituted posting google doc text in shared drive with book creator link.

Book creator allowed Meghan to add media and evidence to augment communication of beliefs.

Book creator allowed Meghan to modify the task allowing her to collaborate more dynamically with her colleagues using text, voice, video, etc.

Book creator allowed Meghan to create a representation of her pedagogical beliefs using her pedagogical beliefs as a framework redefining the work in way that can be used in multiple contexts including with families, peers, and archive for use in the future.