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_____________________ do not alter the provincial curriculum expectations for the grade.
What is Accommodations?
Modifications typically involve changing the number and/or complexity of the regular grade-level expectations.
What is True?
What is an accommodation?
An accommodation is "a change that helps a student overcome or work around the disability" (The Individual Education Plan (IEP), A Resource Guide, 2004).
Tim is in grade 11 and identified as gifted. He is currently taking grade 11 Academic English. In congruence with his intellectual exceptionality, Tim is assigned grade 12 level work to meet his learning needs. Are Tim's learning expectations accommodated or modified?
What is Modified expectations? Tim's curriculum expectations have been modified, as he is working a grade level ahead of his peers.
What are some examples of "Alternative Expectations" that are developed to help students acquire knowledge and skills that are not represented as part of the Ontario curriculum?
Some examples of alternative expectations include: speech remediation, social skills, orientation/mobility training, and personal care programs. For the majority of students, these programs are included in addition to modified or regular grade-level expectations.
Preferential seating is an example of ____________________.
What is Environmental Accommodations?
Students may only have accommodations OR modifications, but never both identified on their Individual Education Plan.
What is False? Students may require certain accommodations to help them achieve learning expectations in modified subjects and courses.
What is a modification?
A modification is "a change in what is being taught to or expected from the student" (The Individual Education Plan (IEP), A Resource Guide, 2004).
Cindy has a severe hearing impairment and requires the use of an FM system during instructional time and during assessments. Is Cindy modified or accommodated to meet her learning needs?
What is accommodation? Cindy has the same learning expectations as her peers. She requires specific assistive technology to support her communication learning disability and help her meet learning expectations.
What is the difference between universal design and differentiation?
Universal design focuses on the design and creation of expectations that will benefit and accommodate all learners and their diverse learning needs. Differentiation recognizes the individual skills, strengths and challenges of each student (background knowledge, learning preferences, needs, abilities). Both universal design and differentiation go hand-in-hand to support unique learning needs and promote learning.
Visual cueing, use of manipulatives, and ability grouping are just a few examples of ____________________.
What is Instructional Accommodations?
When a student is identified solely as gifted, modifications without accommodations are generally required.
What is True? Generally, gifted students do not require accommodated expectations, but will require modified curriculum expectations.
What is the purpose of the Individual Education Plan?
The Individual Education Plan (IEP) describes the special education program and/or services required by a particular student. It includes recorded accommodations and/or modifications and monitors student needs and progress. IEPs help ensure that all identified special education students get the support they need.
Jordan is easily distracted by his busy grade 7 math class. Jordan completes all of his math tests/assessments in an alternative quiet space in the Library. Is Jordan modified or accommodated based on his needs?
What is accommodated? Jordan has the same learning expectations as his peers, but is accommodated based on his need for a quiet work space.
When specific modifications are required, information of current levels of achievement, annual program goals, and learning expectations are included in what section of the IEP?
What is the Special Education Program section of the IEP? This section is only filled out when the student requires modified expectations to be documented and monitored in this section.
______________________ may include: special teaching and assessment strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment to support special education needs.
What is Accommodations?
Assistive Technology can be incorporated into instructional, environmental, and assessment accommodations.
What is True? Assistive Technology can be used in all forms of accommodation.
Define the OSR and its purpose.
OSR stands for Ontario Student Record. It is the official record of student educational progress in Ontario. OSRs can be a useful tool for educators to find documentation of student history, report cards, IEPs, transcripts, transition plans, etc.
What types of modifications may be considered for a gifted learner?
Accelerate learning where appropriate, offer opportunities to work with similarly talented peers, offer original and complex learning situations, use higher forms of discourse such as debate and discussion, involve students in planning, decision making, and implementation, emphasize collaboration and project-based learning, allow choice creativity and discovery, include cross-curricular studies, integrate technology, promote higher order thinking.
Why is the creation of Student Profiles so important to student success?
Student Profiles promote a holistic view of the student and not only their needs, but most importantly their strengths. Student needs do not always change significantly over time, but their strengths can grow and be used to improve learning.
Extended time limits, more frequent breaks, and verbatim scribing are each examples of ___________________________.
What is Assessment Accommodations?
IEPs can be developed for students that have not been formally identified by the IPRC as exceptional but requires a special education program and/or services if:
1) The school principal determines the student will be assessed on modified expectations and/or
2) the student regularly requires accommodations for instructional or assessment purposes.
What is true? IEPs can be developed without formal identification with support from the school principal.
What are the three types of accommodations?
What is instructional, environmental, and assessment accommodations?
Create a scenario in which a student is identified with both accommodations and modifications to support learning and success.
Ie. Susan has been identified with dyslexia and requires a personal computer to access speech-to-text software when completing independent work. Susan performs below grade-level expectations, and as a result, language curriculum expectations have been modified.
Consider the statement: "Fairness is not sameness" (Learning for All, 2013). Why is this statement so important when considering accommodations and modifications for our students?
This statement points to the heart and foundation of providing equitable opportunity and accessibility in our education practices to promote the overall success and well-being of not only special education students, but ALL students.