Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Institute - Registration Now Open

What is the UDL Institute:

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Institute is a three-day in-person immersive professional learning experience for Humber faculty.  During the UDL Institute, Humber faculty will reflect on and create opportunities to adopt a UDL framework into their teaching practice, examine their current curriculum practices and design learning experiences that integrate an Antiracism and UDL framework. Faculty who participate in the UDL Institute and successfully complete the final assessment* will receive a Micro credential. (Faculty who have completed the Inclusive Curriculum Design Certificate (ICDC) at Humber may be eligible for recognition of this prior learning for part of the Micro credential). 

Specifically, during the Winter UDL Institute, faculty will: 

  1. Identify the rationale, goals, and principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework 
  2. Examine methodologies and strategies that are associated with UDL in higher education 
  3. Consider ways to incorporate UDL Principles into teaching practice 
  4. Re-design a learning experience, either a lesson or an assessment, using a UDL Framework 

UDL Institute Schedule: 

March 1: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., North Campus 

  • An orientation to the UDL Institute  

  • “What is the Universal Design for Learning Framework?”: An introduction to the principles and processes of the UDL framework.   

March 2: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., North Campus 

Andratesha Fritzgerald’s keynote and workshop: “Pain, Power, Honour, UDL and Anti-Racism”.   

Educator, author and UDL expert, Andratesha Fritzgerald will deliver a keynote address in the morning and facilitate an interactive workshop in the afternoon that focuses on ways to implement UDL with a focus on equity and anti-racism.  

Ms. Fritzgerald encourages faculty to critically consider the notions of power and empowerment that are made evident in our decisions, designs and environments. 

 Faculty who participate in her sessions will: 

  • Explore the definitions of honour and power 
  • Evaluate power filled choices and examine the implications of power in equitable access to learning 
  • Acknowledge the pain of staying the same 
  • Disarm the danger of “power” 
  • Transform the code of power into the code of honour 

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March 3: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., North Campus

  • An introduction to designing and (re)designing curriculum 

This interactive workshop will inform faculty on ways to make curriculum design choices that integrate UDL.   

Workshop Description: In this hands-on workshop, you will identify strategies that integrate UDL into your curriculum, and ways to design or redesign using the UDL framework. 

Faculty who participate in this session will: 

  • Re-design a learning experience, either a lesson or an assessment, using a UDL Framework 
  • Reflect on the challenges and opportunities to UDL informed lesson design 
  • Engage in constructive feedback about their UDL informed redesigns 

* The final assessment of the UDL Institute is a curriculum re-design activity that is submitted to the UDL Institute facilitators for review and feedback. UDL faculty participants who achieve a satisfactory or ‘met all requirements’ of the re-design activity will receive the Micro credential.  

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