Accommodations and Modifications

What is accommodation?

• Special teaching and assessment strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment required to enable a student to learn and to demonstrate learning. They do not alter the provincial curriculum expectations for the grade.

• I'm not sure

• Change in curriculum content

• Changes in age-appropriate grade level expectations

Which statement is false?

• Instructional accommodations – adjustments in teaching strategies required to enable the student to learn and to progress through the curriculum

• Environmental accommodations – changes or supports in the physical environment of the classroom and/or the school

• Assessment accommodations – adjustments in assessment activities and methods required to enable the student to demonstrate learning

• IEP accommodation identifies subjects or courses from the Ontario curriculum in which the student requires expectations that differ in some way from the regular grade expectations

Gesture cues, large-size font, reduced uncluttered format, repetition of information are all different accommodations a teacher can use to accommodate their student.

• True

• False

Special lighting, strategic seating and assistive devices are examples of environmental accommodations. True or False?

• False

• True

Accommodations are developed in consultation with the student, parents/guardians and all of the teachers who teach the student.

• True

• False

Adapting the number of items that the student is expected to learn is an example of modification.

• True

• False

Adapting the time allotted and allowed for learning, task completion or testing is an example of modification.

• True

• False

Adapting the skills level, problem type, or the rules on how the student may approach the work is an example of modification.

• True

• False

Providing different instruction, materials and alternative activities to meet the student's individual expectations are examples of modification.

• False

• True

Modifications are changes made in the age-appropriate grade-level expectations for a subject or course in order to meet a student's learning needs.

• True

• False