Dr. Ralabate Traditional Method #1: Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal teaching is a method that requires dialogue between teachers and students and is based around the development of reading comprehensions skills. In order to help with reading comprehension skills, this method is composed of four key strategies. These include requiring students to : summarize the main content, come up with questions about what they have read, clarify misunderstandings, and predict what may come next. The teacher might even do a think-aloud with her students while reading a book to them. To enhance this method using UDL, I would allow students to represent their knowledge about what they read in a way that works best with the way they learn. For example, when they are going through the four key strategies, they would be able to complete these steps using visual representations, verbally, or in any way that benefits them and truly shows how much they know.
Method #2: Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning is a learning method that requires students to work together in groups, because of the belief that children learn best when they are working with others. The five key elements to cooperative learning include: positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction, individual and group accountability, inter-personal and small group skills, and group processing. To enhance this method using UDL, I would make sure that students who are partaking in cooperative learning all have the ability to access and display information in ways that they feel are most beneficial to them. I would perhaps base grouping on the different types of learners that are incorporated or have students choose their groups based on how they want to display the information. I think that the independence to choose how they reach their goal is very important, even when children are working in groups.