Accommodations and/or Modifications
General Classroom Tips:
The following are common accommodations that are designed access to the general curriculum /modifications. They are general classroom tips that sustain and improve the learning and organizational skills of students with disabilities. First and foremost, teachers must be mindful that a student with disability is a person first, so they must allow the student the same confidentiality as other students and not share the alternative instruction accommodations/modifications that the student might be using to access the curriculum.
- Provide handouts and visual aids.
- When appropriate, assign a peer reader with a non-reading student during in-class assignments.
- Use more than one way to demonstrate or explain information.
- When appropriate, break information into small steps when teaching many new tasks in one lesson (state objectives, review previous lesson, summarize periodically).
- Provide study guides or review sheets for exams.
- Provide alternative ways for the students to do tasks, such as oral presentations or other performance based presentations.
- Establish opportunities for individual conferences to support students to monitor their progress and understanding of the assignments and of the course content.
- Use colored highlighting pens to emphasize key information and get attentions and to assist in homework assignments.
- Gradually reduce the amount of assistance, but keep in mind that students with disabilities will need more help for a longer period of time than students without a disability.
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