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¶ … school that are related to all the students and have a general effect on the entire organization. The focus of the research pertinent to this investigation deals with the Hispanic female population in my school. Within this group there are some specific issues that could definitely benefit from a widespread application of a thoughtful universal design for learning (UDL) plan. At the heart of the learning problems with this specific demographic is the differing culture and communication methods that come into conflict with the student and her environment. The transition from Spanish to English is dramatic in many cases and the curriculum and school system design does not necessarily align itself with the a path to simple and easy learning. The environment has taken this problem into consideration and has addressed this communication gaps in some ways but there is much room for improvement. English as a second language (ESL) curriculum modifications have been implemented in some areas of the system, but the issue is that more can be done to make significant improvements on eliminating the diversity...

She wrote "The barriers faced by implementing UID techniques in the ESL classroom can be multiple, but never as big as an adherence to the status quo in an academic setting making change difficult to implement. This is what I call the "guarded knowledge" theory. Simply stated, we must have strict rules and regulations about how to learn in order to grade, label, and justify what we do. And, any derivation of the above (i.e. allowing more time, books on tape, etc.) results in a dilution of the curriculum. I disagree. I think it is important to implement new and useful course design and teaching techniques to allow more access to the information being taught." I fully support this approach and my school is also developing a more UID slanted adoption of these tenets as well. I would like my school to implement even more of an emphasis on ESL approaches and theories throughout the entire school. To address this problem a practice that will infuse this guarded knowledge with mainstream ideas that will synthesize the efforts of the entire organization.
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My selected school is still in a state of learning what the preferred learning styles of this demographic actually are and what they truly represent. The rapid evolution of this group has demonstrated that there is…

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Sahin, Y (2003). Empowering ESL Students with Universal Design. University of Maryland, Paper 2003. Retrieved from http://www.edtechpolicy.org/StudentWork/yesmin/www.glue.umd.edu/~ysahin/EDUC477/Empowering%20ESL%20students%20with%20UD.htm

Strehorn, K. (2001). The Application of Universal Instructional Design to ESL Teaching. The Internet TESL Journal, 7(3), March 2001. Retrieved from http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Strehorn-UID.html
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