The Innovation Fund supports the development and innovation of school activities in nursery, primary and secondary schools, in accordance with government policy and the national curriculum for the respective school stages. The grants were recently awarded, with a total of 42 projects receiving funding this time. One of the projects to receive a grant is the collaborative project between Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3li and L\u00e6kjarsk\u00f3li on Universal Design for Learning (UDL).\u00a0 The fund's focus areas this time are school learning communities, boys and reading.<\/p>\n
Universal Design for Learning, here called UDL, is a methodology based on the research of David Rose (Boston Harvard, 1984). The method is well-known in the United States and further afield, and is used, for example, in all state schools in Boston. The main aims of UDL are to identify barriers in the learning environment and remove them in order to accommodate all learners on their own terms. The assumption is that the barriers are in the environment, not the student. The methodology includes all students, supports inclusive education and promotes greater equity. One of the reasons the headteachers of Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3li and L\u00e6kjarsk\u00f3li decided to implement UDL is that they want to strengthen the schools' learning community, a community where everyone is included. UDL involves, among other things, teachers sharing their visions and values through professional reflection and collaboration, as well as making students aware of their own learning, increasing their responsibility for it, and making others in the community aware of what is happening within the schools and giving them the opportunity to influence it. <\/p>\n
The aim is to implement the UDL methodology in the school communities of L\u00e6kjarsk\u00f3li and Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3li. It will subsequently be decided which elements of the project will be addressed, as only a partial grant was received. <\/p>\n
With UDL as a guiding principle, the aim is to better meet the needs, development and abilities of students, which will hopefully lead to improved well-being and academic achievement. A strong emphasis is placed on engaging pupils in their own learning, on them being aware of their own strengths, having a say in their learning and being responsible for demonstrating it in the way they see fit. Parents and others in the school community are being involved in this improvement project in a variety of ways, through dialogue, information sessions and surveys. The estimated time for full implementation is 5-7 years. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sprotasj\u00f3\u00f0ur sty\u00f0ur vi\u00f0 \u00fer\u00f3un og n\u00fdjungar \u00ed sk\u00f3lastarfi \u00ed leik- grunn- og framhaldssk\u00f3lum \u00ed samr\u00e6mi vi\u00f0 stefnu stj\u00f3rnvalda og a\u00f0aln\u00e1mskr\u00e1 vi\u00f0komandi sk\u00f3lastiga. \u00c1 d\u00f6gunum var \u00fathluta\u00f0 \u00far sj\u00f3\u00f0num og hlj\u00f3ta alls 42 verkefni styrki a\u00f0 \u00feessu sinni og er samstarfsverkefni Skar\u00f0shl\u00ed\u00f0arsk\u00f3la og L\u00e6kjarsk\u00f3la um alt\u00e6ka h\u00f6nnun n\u00e1ms (UDL) eitt \u00feeirra verkefna sem hlaut styrk. \u00c1herslusvi\u00f0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14640"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}