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Accommodation: "Curricular adaptations that compensate for learners’ weaknesses without modifying the curriculum. Students receiving accommodations read the same material and take the same tests as their peers without disabilities."
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Modification: "Curricular adaptations that compensate for learners’ weaknesses by changing or lowering expectations or standards."
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How can educators use accommodations and modifications to help students of all abilities and backgrounds learn?
With your group, please discuss the following scenarios and please be ready to share your conclusions.
You are a science teacher preparing for a new school year. You want all of your students to get the most that they can out of your class and notice that you have several new students with disabilities. You are currently designing an experiment in which students must test the pH of various solutions and classify them as acidic, basic, or neutral.
How can you modify the experiment for a student who has a visual impairment?
How can you accommodate a student who is in a wheelchair?
You are a tenth grade mathematics teacher and your curriculum focuses mainly on Algebra II concepts. You are planning a unit on common forms of quadratic equations (standard form, factors, roots, and vertex form). You also want your students to learn how to graph quadratic equations from any given form.
You know that you will have a student with Dyscalculia, a disorder that affects a person's ability to understand numbers. It is often associated with a lack of number sense, a difficulty understanding symbolic representations, and difficulty organizing numbers.
What accommodations could you include in the unit plans for this student?
What modifications could be helpful to this student?
Your colleague teaches an English class. She wants your advice on how to modify and accommodate her lesson for a child who has learning disabilities with reading and writing. Her lesson involves having her students read a passage then write a paragraph interpreting the meaning behind the piece.
An example of modifying the lesson would be to shorten the response expected of the student or to ask directed questions rather than ask the student to interpret the passage.
An example of accommodating the lesson would be reading the passage to the student or having the student orally discuss the passage with the teacher.