Essay On Universal Design For Learning

As the diversity within our classrooms only seems to grow greater throughout the years, Teachers have started to become worried with how they will successfully meet the individual needs of each student. In “Gaining Access to General Education:The Promise of Universal Design for Learning," Terese C. Jimenez, Victoria. L. Graf, and Ernest Rose describe the benefits of adopting the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), by providing the reader with multiple sources showing the benefits of a Universal Design for Learning. I argue that they were successful in what they aimed to do. Through the use of statistics, research, and real-life situations Terese, Jimenez and Victoria are able to convince their audience that the Universal Design for Learning could indeed be what is needed in our classrooms to guarantee the success of each student. The first technique that Terese, Victoria, and Ernest use to prove their credibility in the article is explaining some of the events that led to the desire for general education curriculum to be accessible to all students, regardless of whether or not they had a disability. For example, They begin by educating their readers on the No Child Left Behind Act. In mentioning this the authors hope to provide the readers with some history as to what lead to the creation of Universal Design for learning. The authors then …show more content…
I argue that they were successful in convincing their readers of the benefits the Universal Design for Learning could bring if used properly. Throughout the article the authors credibility is established not only through the information provided as well as the tone used. It is clear that the authors are passionate about the topic and truly believe in its