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Reflect and Plan: 20/20/20

Mini Challenge: Reflect and Plan

Challenge 4: Reflect and Plan

To wrap up our mini-challenge, we decided to have our participants reflect on their experiences and look at where they could go in the future to continue to reduce barriers for their students and colleagues. Our last challenge invited reflection, but also looking forward.

Individual Activity: Padlet Brainstorm what you could do to reduce barriers in the next 20 minutes, 20 days, and 20 months.

 

 

Overview

  • Instructional Mini-Challenge: Reflect on where your pinch points are. Plan what can be addressed in the next 20 minutes, 20 days, or 20 months in your teaching
  • Community Mini-Challenge: Reflect on where your pinch points at work are. Plan what you can change about your workflow in the next 20 minutes, 20 days, or 20 months. 

Instructional Challenge: Pinch Points + 20/20/20 in your instruction

We have based the mini-challenges on the premise of pinch points. Pinch points are places where learners struggle, have questions, or experience some barrier to their learning. Each mini-challenge address something that you could address in your instruction that would not require a lot of your time.

How

  • Reflect on where those pinch points are in your instruction.

  • Think about the ideas shared in the mini-challenges or reflect on a barrier that you are facing.

  • Jot down some ideas based on our prompting questions. Use our template or journal on your own.

Consider

  • Where are the places where you can make a small adjustment with a minimal investment of time. Ask yourself, what can I accomplish in 20 minutes that will make a meaningful impact on my learners and how they interact with my learning materials. For example, adding captions to a recording.

  • We are almost at the end of the winter semester. If you have some time for planning, are there bigger changes that you can make in the next 20 days. For example, doing an accessibility audit on a Brightspace course.

  • Now think big! In the next 20 months, what can you accomplish. How can you change your practice to incorporate UDL thinking? Start gathering statistics, talk to your colleagues, and get others on board.

Why

  • UDL makes learning accessible and minimizes the barriers that students face.

Community Challenge: Pinch Points + 20/20/20 in your work

Many of the principles of UDL apply to our work lives as well. There are many barriers to productivity and workplace efficiency that would benefit from the use of a UDL lens.

How

  • Reflect on the barriers that you face in your work life. For example, do you have an ergonomic desk setup? Are your eyes strained after looking at the computer screen for long periods of time?

Consider

  • How you can make changes to your space and workflow that will minimize the barriers that you are facing in your work.

  • For example, can you use an immersive reader in your web browser to listen instead of reading.

  • Create a plan for yourself that might involve steps that take 20 minutes, 20 days, or 20 months. Ask yourself if you need to get other stakeholders involved.

Why

  • Using the UDL framework, you can make your work accessible and minimize the barriers that you face.

Ideas

Here are some ideas for incorporating UDL strategies into your instruction or workflow in 20 minutes, 20 days, and 20 months.

  • I am instructing a course where students are split into two groups to accommodate some skills training. Each group was to have two weeks to complete my course, but due to orientations at the beginning of January, students in Group 1 ended up only having nine full days instead of 14 to work on the materials. To remedy this, I opened the assignment drop boxes to give students in each group the entire month to work on their assignments. (Anonymous)
  • I have been trying to use the 20 minutes before each class to maximize my preparedness and check in about my information and plan for engagement. As I mark assignments, I think about the ways that I can adapt my instructions and rubrics in the next 20 days so that they are better for next year. (Anonymous)
  • Looking 20 months into the future, we are in the middle of selecting and migrating our online content to a new software platform. We asked about accessibility features when we were choosing the new platform, and we will run new pages though an accessibility checker when we migrate content to the new system. We also hope to set up standards for information organization and formatting with UDL strategies in mind. (Anonymous)

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