Mid-week post for you all
What Adaptive Teaching strategies you have seen as a student, are seeing as a developing educator and have or will use in your own teaching.
ideas from you? (pretty quiet so far😁)
Because we know you wanted to know!!
FORMAL AND IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS: ACCOMMODATIONS, MODIFICATIONS, MODIFIED used in IEPs and in Teaching
ACCOMMODATIONS: refers to special teaching, assessment strategies, human support and/or specialized equipment required to enable a student to learn and to demonstrate what they have learned. Accommodations do not alter the provincial curriculum expectations for that grade. Many students only have accommodations on their IEP. Accommodations can be changed and should be changed according to the assessed development of the student and changing needs.
Examples:
Instructional: buddy/peer tutoring; duplicated notes; graphic organizers; assistive technology such as speech-to-text or text-to-speech, extra time
Environmental: strategic seating; headphones; alternate, quiet setting; reduction of audio/visual stimuli
Assessment: extended time; verbatim scribing; oral responses; prompts to return attention; extra time; reduced tasks to show understanding
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. These changes may involve developing and following expectations that reflect knowledge/skills of a different-grade level, curriculum expectations, and/or increasing or decreasing the number/complexity of the regular grade-level curriculum expectations. Often, students will have modifications in one subject area and not in another. Generally, language and math modifications are geared toward a different level as these subjects are based on a spiral curriculum and are taught every year. Other subjects like social studies typically involve modifications that change the number or the complexity of the curriculum, grade-level expectations.
Before we embark on today’s class, a bit of humour and an example of adaptability by sportscaster, Andrew Cotter (no marmots or meerkats)
and on blogging – a new timeline for you that has been added to Brightspace
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Dear Educators,
Welcome to the event page for the second webinar in our new 2021 webinar series: Embracing the Shift: Sharing Our Pandemic Stories of Connecting to Land and Children’s Natural Curiosity! In 2020, we brought you Natural Curiosity in the New Normal, a four-part conversation about getting outside and staying outside amid COVID-19. We highlighted an Indigenous lens on the current crisis in education and invited educators to slow down and embrace the natural world as co-teacher. In our continuing series, we hope to build on these foundational ideas, with more educator stories to further unpack the principles and practices laid out in Natural Curiosity 2nd Edition.
If you are interested, here is the sign-up form
Let’s get together
We’re hosting a virtual event and we’d love to see you there! Join us for Sharing Indigenous Education Resources on February 4th, 4:30PM – 6:30PM or February 23rd, 6:00PM – 8:00PM (EST)
Register for this FREE event by using the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sharing-indigenous-education-resources-tickets-137217405955
We hope you’re able to join us!
If you experience any technical difficulties registering, please join us directly on February 4th or February 23rd using this Zoom link: https://zoom.