MODIFICATIONS
Providing Modifications to Students with Intellectual Disabilities
Modifications refer to the process of altering what a student or pupil learns or is being tested on. It can refer to changes in the expectations for an assessment or course, shortening assignments, or materials provided at a lower grade level. Kids who receive modifications are not expected to learn the same material as their classmates but have the educational right to participate in your class environment.
ASSIGNMENTÂ
MODIFICATIONS
What should the student be responsible for?
Completing different work than their grade level peers
Answer different test questions than their grade level peers
True/False
Multiple Choice
Kahoot with Image Choices
Create alternate projects or assignments
Use a BINGO board for self-choice in project completion
Repetition of assignments or activities to increase understanding
Hands-on activities including sorting, flashcards, matching, etc…
Correct marked work to prove an increase in understanding
Take home Tests
Open-book or open-notes class
CURRICULUMÂ
MODIFICATIONS
What is the teacher responsible for creating?
Learn different material (such as continuing to work on multiplication while classmates move on to fractions)
Get graded or assessed using a different standard than other students (Colorado Extended Evidence Outcomes)
Be excused from particular projects with alternative assignments in place
Adjusting the grading level, for instance, to weighted grading or Pass/Fail
Simplify vocabulary used in conversation
Simplify vocabulary for instruction
Simplifying the lessons that a student takes to increase their level of understanding
Reducing reading levels to students instructional level
Reducing the number of similar questions in a test.
Allowing a student to use a calculator during an assessment of mathematics
No homework or simplified/shortened homework assignments
Books/text at a lower reading level that doesn’t cover all of the original content
Grading on progress or effort rather than correctness (if completing the same task multiple times has their score increased over multiple attempts)
Grade corrected work
Focus on mastery of functional concepts
Give page numbers or other locators to help students find answersShortened assignments aimed at mastery of concepts