Definitions 1
A change that helps the student overcome or work around a learning disability.
What is an accommodation?
Limit the accommodations to the most important in each category of "these areas".
What are instructional, environmental, and assessment?
Extra time for processing information.
What is an appropriate instructional accommodation?
"These" which vary from those used with the rest of the class, for each learning expectation, considering the student’s strengths and needs.
What are modified teaching strategies?
A change in what is being taught to or expected from a student.
What is a modification?
What is an IEP?
Oral, written, and visual instructions.
What is an appropriate instructional accommodation?
Limit "these" to a few specific goals that will be targeted.
What are modified learning expectations?
An acronym often used in the development of modified and alternative learning expectations to ensure they are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Reasonable and Time limited.
What are SMART goals?
"These" are typically formally assessed at reporting periods and new ones are often set for future learning and expectations.
What are goals?
Use of manipulatives, a calculator, computer, or other technology.
What is an appropriate instructional and/or assessment accommodation strategy?
"These" need to be developed for each modified learning expectation.
What are modified assessment strategies?
With a team of teachers, educational workers, parents/guardians and the student, develop "this".
What is an annual goal?
If required, accommodations and modifications are developed only after a thorough "_______" of student strengths and needs.
What is assessment?
Preferential seating (in a specific location to support student’s needs) and Alternative work location are examples of "_______".
What are environmental accommodations?
"This" must be identified on the student's IEP if learning expectation modifications have been made.
What is grade level?
After "this period" an appropriate grade level of curriculum is established, and the student receives instruction beginning at that level and then moving along the curriculum continuum.
What is an assessment period?
"This" is the term used on the IEP form to identify a subject or course from the Ontario curriculum in which the student requires modified expectations – expectations that differ in some way from the regular grade-level expectations.
What is modified (MOD)?
Make contact with "___________" to discuss accommodations
Who are parents/guardians?
In other subjects and at secondary schools, modifications usually involve changing the number and/or "this" of the regular curriculum.
What is complexity or degree of difficulty?