Developing Accessible Lesson Plans with Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of UDL training on general education teacher candidates’ daily lesson plan writing skills. The participants were 97 teacher candidates in a general education programme. They were required to write a lesson plan before and after the three-hour UDL training. The single group pre-test- post-test design was conducted to see whether there was a change on the dependent variable. The results of this study indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the total scores of the participants on two lesson plans from the pre-test to post-test. The UDL training was found to be successful at increasing lesson plan writing skills and creating more responsive learning environments for general education teacher candidates.

KEYWORDS:

• Individualised education program
• inclusion
• universal design of learning
• lesson plan
• teacher candidates
• students with disabilities
• udl training
• professional development

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.