udl: universal design for learning
udl: en = engagement
udl: re = representation
udl: ae = action and expression
Gotzee!™ followed UDL guidelines to enhance access and equity to ALL students. IM™ K-5 incorporates udl and Gotzee! has further enhanced access while maintaining the integrity of the embedded mathematics. each term in our Gotzee! glossary will align to one of the three udl guidelines, engagement, representation or action and expression.
udl: IM™ K-5
Gotzee!™ Math Center Kits are adapted from the Illustrative Mathematics™ K-5 Centers. The math and centers remain intact. Gotzee!™ has enhanced IM™ Centers to increase equity and access to ALL students, streamline materials, clarify instructions, identify key skills to monitor in the classroom, and more. Reusable materials with minimal prep.
udl: en: recruiting interest
joyful practice, meaningful fluency and authentic assessment
- Maureen O'Connell, Gotzee!™ Friend and Collaborator, Master Teacher and IMCF
udl: en: self-regulation
organizational center design that empowers student initiative and motivation to progress at their own pace. teachers demonstrate and model a center, students progress through the center with differentiated stagez. the overall routines and structure of the center remains relatively the same over a center's stagez thus minimizing the need to teach across the stages of one center.
udl: en: sustain effort
each Gotzee!™ student facing instruction page includes a clear goal. ie mission.
udl: en: self regulation
"i got this" " i am a maths person" mindset messages on each student game board promotes beliefs that motivate.
udl: re: language & symbols
Gotzee!™ instructions and game boards highlight math vocabulary and key words with bold, colored text and word banks.
udl: re: language & symbols
Gotzee!™ instructions and game boards have been written with emergent readers in mind. our graphic designer created accessible graphics representing actions and structure of the centers. kinder teacher cards include action-icons to model as part of the instructions.
udl: re: comprehension
Gotzee!™ game boards are illustrated graphic organizers written and designed to support decoding of mathematical notations and symbols while highlighting patterns and big ideas.
udl: re: comprehension
Gotzee!™ is written using open-dyslexic font. essential for some students and beneficial to all.
