Roundtable on Universal Design for Learning

This roundtable offers instructors a primer and numerous case studies of the usefulness of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the postsecondary music classroom. Contributions grew out of a session on “Accommodation and Accessibility in the Music Classroom” organized by the AMS Music and Disability Study Group at the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting. The convenors, who formed the leadership team of the Study Group from 2023–24, bring together reflections on topics such as the value of Universal Design for teaching score reading and listening; the ways technology can be leveraged to implement Universal Design principles; how trauma-informed pedagogy benefits students with PTSD; enhancing accessibility through Universal Design; the relevance of “kairotic spaces” in the musicology classroom; and how Universal Design complicates the assumption of an “ideal listener” in music theory pedagogy. Contributors include Reba A. Wissner, Faith S. Lanam, Samantha Bassler, Shannon McAlister, Eric Whitmer, and Michael Weinstein-Reiman.