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I read through the article “UDL and Intellectual Disabilities: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go?” (Rao et.al, 2017) . It talks about how students of all abilities can benefit from the UDL design in the classroom. The article states, “UDL supports inclusion that is meaningful, whereby all students are engaged in the academic, social, and behavioral demands of the general education setting” (Rao et.al, 2017). The article focuses specifically on intellectual disabilities and the research that is available to support to use of UDL in the general education classroom.  The studies were done in several different student placements including full time inclusion and special education classroom full time. One study compared the progress of students with intellectual disabilities who were placed in an intervention group that taught with the components of UDL and those who were placed in the general classroom (Rao et.al, 2017). Those in the intervention group made significant gains. All...

I used the lesson plan generator available on Magic School (Magic School, n.d.). You put in the standards and any other information you would like in your lesson plan, and it creates a lesson plan for you using AI. The lesson plan had all the characteristics you would want to see in a plan. It included sections for the standards, objectives, key points, opening instruction, introduction to new material, guided practice, independent practice, homework, closing activities, extensions and differentiation for below, on, and above grade level. Most sections gave options for the teacher to choose from. I liked that the lesson plan had scaffolding through guided practice and independent practice. It also had lots of optional add on and alternative activities for differentiation. The assessment section gave two options for assessing students understanding both of which identified if students met the state standard by 80%.   I did ask for technology to be used, and I felt the original ...