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- An accommodation is a teaching support or service that a student needs in order to meet the expectations or goals of the general education curriculum. An accommodation addresses the questions of how a student will learn.
- Examples: Study guides, overhead copies, hard copies of class notes, large print, manipulatives
- An intervention is a strategic, research/evidence based plan of action to assist a student in improving academic or behavioral concerns. An intervention should have measurable goals with progress monitoring at least bi-weekly (once every two weeks).
- Example: The teacher provides a student with a question to look for prior to reading.
- A modification is a change in the general education curriculum. When the goals or expectations of the general education curriculum are beyond the student’s level or ability, a modification is needed. A modification addresses what a student will learn: instructional level,content, and performance criteria.
- Examples: requiring a student to learn less material (e.g., fewer objectives, shorter units or lessons, fewer pages problems, reducing classroom or homework assignments and assessments so student only needs to complete the easiest items
- Fidelity of implementation is use and delivery of curricula, instructional strategies and interventions in the manner they were designed and intended to use.
- Research –based interventions are backed by “rigorous evidence”, have proven track records and they work. They are reliable because they consistently produce the same results, valid because they measure what they claim to measure, are peer reviewed and can be repeated. Research-based interventions are NOT shortened assignments, allowing more time for task completion, moving a student’s seat nor use of retention.
- Universal screening is usually done at least twice each year for all students in academic areas in order to determine appropriate instruction for all students.
