Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

embed a student’s individualized instruction within the instruction of the Common Core State Standards and College Career Readiness Standards within the general education settings. The principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL; CAST, 2011) create a framework for collaborative creation of curricula that involves both general and special educators. A short You-Tube video presenting UDL from the Center for Applied Special Technology demonstrates this framework (CAST; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4 ). The primary UDL principles for providing individuals with multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement lay a foundation for designing Common Core units and lessons that promote the participation of all learners. Developing a unit plan for Common Core content areas that address IWD in general-education classrooms takes a coordinated effort from the instructional team. Falco (2014; modified from Tamarkin, n.d.) created a unit/lesson redesign worksheet (Figure 6) that can be used by instructional teams to ensure they are incorporating UDL into their lessons. Within this worksheet, the team outlines the Common Core state standards and lesson objectives that are being addressed. Then, the team outlines how students will demonstrate their learning and what they currently do to teach these skills. In the adjacent columns of the worksheet, instructional teams can then identify ways they may augment their instruction to ensure that the principles of UDL are incorporated in their lessons. View this video clip to see how a biology teacher has utilized UDL within their instruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G18AzLXhEdA&feature=relmfu 14