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WorksheetsAccommodations VS Modifications
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is an accommodation?
Changes in the delivery, content, or curricular expectations of a specific subject to meet the needs of a student.
Various assessment methods used to determine student learning.
A change in environment, curriculum, or equipment that allows a student to gain access to content and complete assigned tasks.
What is the modification?
An adjustment in a student's learning environment.
Tailoring instruction to meet the individual needs.
Changing an assignment of objective to make it easier or more difficult for a student.
Is there a connection to accommodations and modifications?
They are different practices
They are the same practices
They are ways that students get exempted of doing their work.
Molly is receiving hints to answers on a quiz.
A modification
An accommodation
In 10th grade, English class Bobby is required to write a 3-5 sentence paragraph instead of a 5 paragraph essay.
Accommodation
Modification
Adjusting the amount of time, thinking about what individual students need from each other are examples of which differentiation subcategory?
High Quality Curriculum
Assessment
Flexible Grouping
Modified is the term used on the IEP to identify subjects in which the student requires expectations that differ in some ways from the regular grade expectations.
False
True
The following accommodations: using a weighted lap pad, chewing gum, using a fidget spinner and using blank pages to cover all but one question on a worksheet would best help a student with:
ADHD
Auditory Processing Disorder
Sensory Processing Issues
Dyslexia
Why accommodations are required?
Offer a way for students with an exceptionality to demonstrate what they have learned.
Change the expectations for each student depending on their learning style.
Change the curriculum to make it easier if it is too difficult.
Ensuring that all students are instructed in a regular, integrated classroom.
Tony's score on in-class assignments and assessments improves when he is provided with large print material. The teacher provides materials with large print because she observed that his comprehension greatly improves.
Accommodations
Modifications
Is using a scriber a modification or accommodation?
Modification
Accommodation
What should be considered when implementing accommodations?
Be specific with the accommodations which best support the students’ learning needs
Use non-teacher professional reports and recommendations.
Make sure all teachers, parents and student have a copy of the accommodations and understand what they mean and how they will be implemented.
All of the above
