Special Education Pt.1 Module 4: Assignment-"Accommodation and Modification"

Assignment - Accommodations and Modifications


Create an interactive game or activity to demonstrate your understanding of the difference between accommodations and modifications that could be used at a staff meeting or in a demonstration with parents whose child is on an IEP.


Watch this clip to help you think of a creative game for staff, which would demonstrate accommodations and modifications.


EXEMPLAR:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36HMyinQ70M


Accommodation is focused on "how" the child learns


Modification is focused on "what" the child learns


Here is a Kahoot! developed for teachers to use in accommodation and modification understanding consolidation at the end of a PLC activity.


https://create.kahoot.it/share/plc-exit-ticket-accommodation-vs-modification/e55e447a-7be8-42da-b428-c944e7c7242c


Other resources


https://www.smartkidswithld.org/getting-help/the-abcs-of-ieps/examples-of-accommodations-modifications/


https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/educational-strategies/the-difference-between-accommodations-and-modifications