Accommodations
Providing extra time on a test is an example of this.
What is an accommodation?
Removing two choices from a selected-response item is an example of this.
What is a modification?
Allowing students to choose the product they create to show their understanding of a topic is an example of this.
What is Differentiation?
The two types of accommodations according to IRIS are these.
What are Timing & Scheduling and Response Accommodations?
Modifications, unlike differentiation and accommodations, involve changing the content itself that a student needs to learn or demonstrate by simplifying or adjusting expectations to suit this.
What are individual needs?
These students are able to receive differentiation
What are all students?
These are examples of this form of accommodation:
•Speech-to-text software
• Graphic organizers
• Templates (e.g., for outlines, paragraphs, essays)
• Checklists
What is written expression?
This may involve more significant changes in the assessment criteria, curriculum content, or level of instruction and learning:
What are modifications?
Learning environment, product, content, and process are all examples of this.
What is differentiation?
If a CLD student has better speaking and listening skills than written/reading skills, a teacher could read these.
What are question prompts?
These items can be modified to reduce the student’s dependence on structured recall by providing this to accompany the items.
What are word banks?
Narrational is an entry point for this
What is process of learning?
This helps you to give the student a still more personalized evaluation.
What is a narrative summary?
Modifications change what content a student is supposed to learn or demonstrate on this.
What is an assessment?
Mary Vagenas uses this to differentiate in her 7th grade Social Studies class:
What are learning menus?