Universal Design for Learning Guidelines In Action with Seesaw

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines In

Action with Seesaw

Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the only elementary learning experience platform, offering a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction to support educators in applying the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines to their instruction.

Multimodal Learning

Seesaw’s Learning Experience Platform encourages student voice and choice through intuitive and open-ended multimodal learning tools that empower students of all ages to showcase, build and reflect on their knowledge.

• Optimize individual choice and autonomy

• Vary the methods of response and navigation

• Support decoding of text, mathematical notation, and symbols

• Illustrate through multiple media

• Use multiple tools for construction and composition

• Build fluencies with graduated levels of support in the form of models and scaffolds to support practice and performance

Differentiation Simplified

Seesaw’s integrated support features like written & audio instructions, clear visuals and modeling tools formative assessments, and student groups enable developmentally appropriate instruction to reach and engage all learners.

• Offer ways of customizing the display of information

• Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge

• Offer alternatives for auditory and visual information

Engaging Instruction

Equip teachers with ready-to-teach PreK-6 standards-aligned lessons designed by curriculum experts that utilize Seesaw’s powerful learning tools - available in both English and Spanish. Teachers and administrators can also create their own resources leveraging Seesaw’s learning tools.

• Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity

• Activate or supply background knowledge

• Maximize transfer and generalization of knowledge by embedding new ideas in familiar contexts

• Promote understanding across languages

• Facilitate personal coping skills and strategies

• Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation

Assessment and Data-driven Insights

Seesaw’s assessment tools combine the time savings of auto-grading with the power of multimodal tools to get deeper insights into student learning and provide targeted support and guide instruction.

• Increase mastery-oriented feedback

• Enhance capacity for monitoring progress

• Facilitate student comprehension monitoring and self-reflection

Student and Family Engagement

Support seamless collaboration between all the adults in a student’s life and engage families in the learning process through inclusive two-way communication that provides a true window into the classroom.

• Foster collaboration and community

• Use multiple media for communication

• Facilitate managing information and resources

• Facilitate capacity for managing resources

Seesaw Helps Educators Put the UDL Framework into Practice

Teachers said that their students are empowered to take ownership of their work while using Seesaw

Teachers said Seesaw improves learning outcomes in subjects they practice using Seesaw

Teachers said Seesaw helps them deliver engaging instructional experiences to their students

*ResultsfromApril2023Seesawsurveyofnearly1,000educatorswhouseSeesawweeklyormonthly.

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