UDL in Adult Education: Designing Inclusive Learning for Diverse Learners

Every class has different learners: different levels, different languages, different needs. One lesson plan rarely works for everyone. Universal Design for Learning, or UDL, is a way to plan and deliver lessons that work for more people from the start, instead of fixing problems later, one learner at a time.
In this course, you will learn UDL's three main ideas: giving learners different ways to stay motivated, different ways to take in information, and different ways to show what they have learned. We will look at these ideas through authentic examples of good practice.
Most of the course is very practical, offering hands-on strategies and activities. Bring one lesson or resource that you already use. You will redesign it together with other teachers, test it, and take home a version that removes a specific barrier for your own learners.
    • Day 1: The three UDL ideas, and where normal lesson planning creates barriers for adult learners
    • Day 2: Redesigning your own materials for more ways to engage with and understand the                 content
    • Day 3: Giving learners more ways to show what they know; keeping your own workload realistic

As a participant:

• can you express yourself in English;
• are you a team player;
• you have a didactic, creative and innovative mind;
• are you prepared to be inspired with an open mind and to inspire others to pass on what you have learned;
• are you prepared to transfer the international knowledge you have learned to other contexts;
• you are prepared to translate what you have learned into effective change in your own classroom practice and to share this within your department and beyond;
• are you willing to commit to the Erasmus day in which you want to share what you have learned with colleagues from other participating school institutions;
• are you willing to commit to the Erasmus podcast of Catholic Education Flanders to share what you have learned with the listeners of the podcast.
  

Participants in our 2026-2027 consortium participate for free, those who are not members of our consortium, please contact kevin.weytens@katholiekonderwijs.vlaanderen.