1.5 Drivers for Effective Actions: Standards, Learning and Principles

When planning a learning experience, using the UDL guidelines “from the start” will be useful to address the needs of diverse learners more effectively in the group; no group is homogenous or has one optimal learning method, therefore it is unrealistic to plan the learning process thinking of an average student or having a norm as reference.

The  guiding  principles

While implementing the learning activities, thinking more specifically about the strategies that will be used may be important. Weinstein and Sumeracki (2018) suggest six strategies for effective learning, supported by the Cognitive Psychology.

All the strategies below can be considered highly relevant because they have supporting evidence from cognitive psychology and from the science of learning, moreover they have  converging evidence from controlled laboratory studies, classroom studies and practical use of the strategies in education (Pomerance, Greenberg & Walsh, 2016).