Accommodations
This accommodation involves providing a student with a larger print version of a textbook or assignment.
What is large print?
This type of modification involves reducing the number of specific learning expectations from the Ontario curriculum that a student is expected to demonstrate in a given subject or course.
What is reducing the number of curriculum expectations?
This broad category of support ensures that students with disabilities have equal access to the curriculum and demonstrate their knowledge in various ways.
What is Accommodations?
As per Ontario's Special Education in Ontario Policy and Resource Guide, this document outlines both accommodations and modifications, detailing the specific, measurable learning expectations for students with special education needs.
What is the Individual Education Plan (IEP)?
This section of an Ontario IEP lists specific teaching strategies, environmental changes, and assessment adjustments that help a student access the curriculum without changing expectations.
What is the Accommodations section?
For a student with a visual impairment, this accommodation allows them to listen to a recorded version of a text instead of reading it visually.
What is an audiobook?
When a student's provincial report card has the "IEP" box checked off for a subject, it indicates that their achievement in that subject is based on this type of expectation.
What are modified expectations?
Unlike accommodations, this type of support alters the grade-level expectations for a subject or course in Ontario.
What is modifcations?
In Ontario, this committee is responsible for identifying a student as an "exceptional pupil" and determining their placement in a special education program.
What is the Identification, Placement, and Review Committee (IPRC)?
When an Ontario IEP specifies that a student will be working on expectations from a lower grade level in a subject like Math, this is documented under the "Modified" section, requiring specific annual goals and learning expectations.
What is the Modified Expectations section?
For a student who needs to move around, this accommodation allows them to use a standing desk or a wobble chair in the classroom.
What is an alternative seating arrangement?
During a Grade 6 Science unit on ecosystems, a student's IEP states they will focus on understanding the concept of a food chain, while their classmates are also learning about food webs and energy transfer.
What is narrowing the scope of curriculum content for a unit?
The Ontario Ministry of Education states that this type of support does not change what the student is expected to learn, but rather how they learn or demonstrate that learning.
What is an accommodation?
This principle in Ontario education aims to ensure that all students, regardless of their abilities, are educated in the most enabling environment possible, often alongside their peers.
What is inclusion or inclusive practices?
By planning lessons with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in mind, this Ontario educator anticipates student needs and integrates accommodations from the start, reducing the need for individual adjustments later.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
By underlining or highlighting important vocabulary in a text, a teacher is using this type of presentation accommodation to support student understanding.
What is emphasizing key/important information?
To implement modifications for a student in an Ontario classroom, a teacher must first consult the student's IEP to identify the specific modified expectations and then adjust their instructional strategies and assessment methods accordingly.
What is adjusting instructional strategies and assessment methods based on the IEP?
According to Ontario various policies, these are special teaching and assessment strategies, supports, or equipment that enable a student to learn and demonstrate learning without altering the provincial curriculum expectations.
What is Accommodations?
In Ontario, these are neurologically-based processing problems that can affect a student's ability to learn reading, writing, or math, despite average or above-average intelligence.
What are Learning Disabilities (LDs)?
In addition to annual goals, an IEP includes these smaller, short-term targets that guide a student’s progress during each reporting period.
What are learning expectations?
This type of accommodation supports diverse learning needs by delivering instructions in more than one format, such as oral explanations, written steps, and visual examples
What is multimodal instruction?
This modification means that a student's final grade for a course is based on their progress towards individualized, modified learning expectations rather than the full grade-level curriculum expectations.
What is grading based on modified expectations/IEP?
When an IEP specifies that a student is working on expectations that differ in number or complexity from the regular Ontario curriculum expectations, this is the type of support being discussed.
What is modification?
This plan, a mandatory component of an IEP for students aged 14 and older (with some exceptions), outlines goals and actions to support a student's move from school to post-secondary education, work, or community living in Ontario.
What is a Transition Plan?
According to the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Individual Education Plan (IEP): A Resource Guide, IEPs must be reviewed at least this many times per school year in elementary, and once each semester in secondary school.
What is three times per year for Primary?