Through this course I partnered with several other students to share resources, teaching philosophies and tools related to Universal Design Learning (UDL) and differentiating learning (DL). It gave me the opportunity to share ideas and resources with other teachers from different educational settings sharing ideas on how to interact with their students.

In my classroom I will continue to differentiate by content, process, product, affect and a comfortable and respectful learning environment. But, I will be more flexible when creating collaborative groups and partners as I group them based on readiness, interests and learning profiles.

The most important principal I came away from this course with is how important on-going assessments are. It is important to do pre and post-assessments with students and through the Internet there are several sites, which allows you to make your own survey including Survey Monkey. But more important is on-going assessments which are tools that allow you to assess where students are at any point of the learning process. Tools such as KWL, Venn diagram, journaling, group and one-on-one discussions gives students the opportunities to process what they have learned, identify what they do not understand and to give teachers the opportunity to support student’s when they struggle and to create lessons based on students individual needs.