Objectives & Overview - Remediation and Extension

 

Barrier in Brief

Students often vary significantly in terms of the knowledge, skills, and experience that they bring to a given class. This significant variance means that instruction may be beneath the capability of some students while being simultaneously too advanced for others. This barrier is sometimes referred to as "variation in prior knowledge and experience."

 

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 Lesson Overview 

In this lesson, instructors will be exposed to strategies for supporting students who would like to know more about topics or sources mentioned/used in a given lesson ("options for remediation and extension"). This strategy is representative of...

 

  

Regarding checkpoint 8.2, UDLGuidlines.org Links to an external site. says,

"Learners vary not only in their skills and abilities, but also in the kinds of challenges that motivate them to do their best work. All learners need to be challenged, but not always in the same way. In addition to providing appropriately varied levels and types of demands, learners also need to be provided with the right kinds of resources necessary for successful completion of the task. Learners cannot meet a demand without appropriate, and flexible, resources. Providing a range of demands, and a range of possible resources, allows all learners to find challenges that are optimally motivating. Balancing the resources available to meet the challenge is vital."

 

 Lesson Objective

By the end of this lesson, instructors should be able to...

• Identify and be able to use canvas features for providing options for variable learners who need to—or would benefit from—having options to dig deeper into content for support or extension.
  

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