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With different students, standards, economic constraints and curriculum demands the way we do business needs to change !urriculum "goals, methods and materials# need to be robust, deliberate and fle$ible so that ALL students can learn A set of constructs, gathered from two distinct disci%lines will hel% to frame this change
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each brain processes information differently. The way we learn is as individual as DNA or fin erprints. the brain functions around three distinct learnin networ!s.
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.athering facts 2ow we identify and categori3e what we see, hear, and read 4or e$am%le, being able to use clues in the %icture to %redict the u%coming danger the 5what5 of learning
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+tudents are engaged and motivated )elates to challenge, interest, relevance and choice &hese are affective dimensions &he 5why5 of learning
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'lanning and %erforming tas(s 2ow we organi3e and e$%ress our ideas Writing an essay or solving a math %roblem are strategic tas(s &he 5how5 of learning
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UDL At a .lance
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