Accommodations v Modifications
A student receives 50% additional time on a classroom test but is still expected to demonstrate the same learning standards.
What is an accommodation?
A student consistently struggles with assignments despite regular classroom instruction. This is an important first step in understanding the student's needs.
What is documenting concerns and reviewing classroom performance and supports?
These records show the student's current performance, missing assignments, grades, and classroom strengths and needs.
What are current academic records and work samples?
This is a meeting where the team comes together to determine whether an initial evaluation needs to occur.
What is a Referral Meeting
Instead of completing all grade-level math standards, a student is assessed on substantially different, individualized learning expectations.
What is a modification?
A student has persistent academic difficulties despite appropriate instruction and interventions. Staff should follow this school process to discuss needs and next steps.
What is make a referral to the school's student support team?
These observations help the team understand how a student participates, interacts with peers, manages tasks, and responds to classroom supports.
What are classroom observations and functional performance data?
This is a meeting which occurs, at least, annually to develop an IEP for a Special Education student.
What is an IEP meeting?
A student uses text-to-speech to access a grade-level reading assignment without changing the learning expectations.
What is an accommodation?
A parent suspects their child has a disability and requests an initial special education evaluation. The school must respond through this formal process rather than simply dismissing the concern.
What is schedule and have a referral meeting within 10 days?
Before an IEP meeting, team members should review these to determine whether the student is making progress toward individualized targets.
What are progress-monitoring data and reports on annual goals?
This is a meeting which occurs every three years to determine whether a Special Education Student needs to take a series of evaluations to decide whether a student still qualifies for Special Education Services.
What is Re-evaluation Planning Meeting?
A teacher reduces the complexity of required learning objectives so that a student works toward different academic expectations.
What is a modification?
A student is failing several classes, missing assignments, and showing little progress but, no interventions have been tried yet. What are the next step(s) a teacher should take?
What are Tier 2 Interventions such as booking to Tasc, scheduling a student for afterschool support, reaching out to their counselor, communicating home, NHS tutoring etc.
When preparing for an IEP meeting, a regular education teacher should be prepared to discuss the following.
What are present levels, current grade, proposed accommodations
This is a meeting where the team reviews the results of the evaluations which were determined at the Eval Planning Meeting. These results are discussed as a team and they determine whether the student still qualifies for Special Education or if their Eligibility needs to change.
What is an Evaluation Results Meeting?
A student's IEP requires a quiet testing location, but the classroom teacher refuses to let the student test in a separate setting. This is the central issue staff must address.
What is failure to implement an IEP accommodation?
This type of referral is made to the student's school counselor when the teacher suspects the student's lack of progress is due to a health or medical related reason.
What is a 504 referral?
These are documents which a regular education teacher should bring to a referral meeting.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 Data, Initial anecdotal evidence, benchmark assessments and work samples (and coffee and donuts).
A meeting which occurs after 10 total days of being suspended where the team determines if the event(s) which occured were caused by their disability.
What is a Determination of Educational Placement Meeting where manifestation is reviewed (aka a manifestation meeting)?