Accomodations for Student Needs

​Reaching Every Learner

By Jumanne John

Accomodations

Open Ended

In one word, what’s your biggest challenge in supporting all learners?

Poll

What area do you most want to strengthen today?

• Knowing my students

• High Achiever Extensions

• Foster a Culture of Belonging

• Clarify the Destination

Share the student’s strength with a partner (no names)

What’s one strength they have?

THINK - PAIR - SHARE

One student you find hard to reach

• Strength and interests

• Motivation and confidence

• Learning barriers and triggers

• Executive functioning skills

• How students respond to challenge and support

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KNOWING OUR STUDENTS

• Depth over speed

• Choice and autonomy

• Intellectual risk-taking

• Meaningful challenge

• Opportunities to lead or create

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HIGH ACHIEVERS

• Open-ended problems

• Inquiry or research tasks

• Real-world applications

• Higher-order questioning

• Design or creation tasks

Open Ended

How do you make every student feel valued?

FOSTER A CULTURE OF BELONGING

• Offer them opportunities to demonstrate their learning in a way that empowers them.

• Present various options to inspire and enable them to personalize their learning experience and showcase their understanding.

• Enable them to adapt the activity to their capabilities.

CLARIFY DESTINATION

• Outcome

• Support

• Material/resource needed

BUILD A RESPONSIVE TOOLKIT

• Instructions:

  1. Pick one subject task card relevant to your teaching area.

  2. Select 1–2 strategy cards that could help diverse learners.

  3. Brainstorm a short adaptation to make the task inclusive.

  4. Record your adaptation on the Adaptation Sheet.

  5. Share with a teacher of other subject for feedback and support.

  6. Refine and try to use it in your teaching next week.