Accomodations
What are accomodations?
"The term accomodations is used to refer to the specific teaching and assessment strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment required to enable a student to learn and demonstrate learning" (The Individualized Education Plan(IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004)
What are modifications?
"Modifications are changes made in the age-appropriate grade-level expectations for a subject or course in order to meet a students learning needs".
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004)
What does IEP stand for?
The Individualized Education Plan
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).
How can you make a student who is on an IEP feel welcomed in your class?
Universal Design for Learning(UDL): "The aim of UDL, then, is to provide access to the curriculum for all students and to assist educators in designing products and environments to make them accessible to everyone, regardless of age, skill or situation"
(Learning for All - A Guide to Effective Assessment and Instruction for All Students, 2013).
What are the three category types of accomodations?
1. Instructional accomodations
2. Environmental accomodations
3. Assessment accomodations
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004)
There are two ways a student can be modified. What are they?
1) "Developing expectations that reflect knowledge and skills required in the curriculum for a different grade level"
2) "Increasing or decreasing the number and/or complexity of the regular grade level curriculum expectations"
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).
In the IEP development, it is helpful to classify subjects and identify how the student will recieve instruction. What are the four categories a students IEP can be identified as?
1. No accomodations or modifications
2. Accomodated only
3. Modified
4. Alternative
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).
How can educators meet the differing needs of all their students?
"Differentiated Instruction (DI) is based on the idea that because students differ significantly in their strengths, interests, learning styles, and readiness to learn, it is necessary to adapt instruction to suit these differing characteristics".
(Learning for All - A Guide to Effective Assessment and Instruction, 2013).
Alternative workspace, reduction of audio/visual stimuli and a study carrel are all examples of...
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004)
Environmental Accomodations
Students that require modifications must have the following three things included in their IEP:
1. Current level of achievement
2. Annual program goal(s)
3. Learning expectations
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).
Who is a part of the IEP team?
Primary teacher(s), Learning Support Teacher, Principal, and parents and/or guardians of the student.
Once created, can the IEP be altered and/or changed?
"The classroom teacher must monitor the learning-assessment process of students with IEPs carefully, so that ineffective instructional strategies and accomodations can be discontinued and replaced with new ones".
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004)
True or False: The provision of accomodations no way alters the curriculum expectations for the grade level or course?
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004)
True
Whose prime responsibility is it to determine the specific modifications for a student?
"It is essential that the teacher(s) responsible for direct instruction to the student be the primary decision-maker(s) in the process of determining the student's programming needs and classifying the relevant subjects, courses and programs accordingly"
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).
Why is it important to make category distinctions (ie. instructional, environmental and assessment) when recording accomodations on an IEP?
"It is important to make the above distinctions, and to record all necessary accomodations accurately in the IEP, to ensure that students will be eligible to receive the permitted accomodations during provincial assessments"
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).
Case Study: Ms. Kirkpatrick had her students work in pairs to create a mind map either on paper template or on the computer. Students then could choose to submit their work or orally present their ideas to the teacher. What accomodations were used in this assignment?
Instructional Accomodations:
1) Working in partners
2) Student choice to create graphic organizer on paper template or on the computer
Assessment Accomodations:
1) Oral responses
(Individualied Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004)
How does a teacher determine a students currently level of achievement?
From the most recent Provincial Report Card. For example; if you are creating an IEP in September, for a student in grade four, the teacher must look at the June Provincial Report Card of the previous year (grade three).
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).
Who is responsible for putting the IEP to practice?
"The classroom teacher and support personnel are directly responsible for implementing the program and services outlined in the student's IEP"
(Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - A Resource Guide, 2004).