Meeting+Students'+Needs

Meeting students’ needs (differentiation, extensions, modifications, accommodations)

Differentiation
--Design specific instructional strategies that differentiate the content, process, product, performance and/or learning environment to improve and enhance each student’s academic achievement. What specific student needs will you need to support during your lesson? How will you differentiate instructional strategies for these needs?
 * Universal Design
 * [|Tiering]
 * Response to Intervention
 * Multiple Intelligences

=Extensions= --An extension "extends" the learning; typically they are for those already familiar with basics or gifted students who figure out the basics quickly
 * More Tiering
 * Not more problems but perhaps more complex problems
 * A course on [|Infinity:] (an alternate elective after Algebra 2, including Cantor's discoveries, proof by contradiction and mathematical induction, chaos, fractals.)
 * A course on [|Space]: (an advanced geometry course, including 3D, 4D, finite groups, and transformations in depth.)
 * There's a [|difference between extension and enrichment]

=Modifications & Accomodations= --Accommodations change how a student learns the material. A modification changes what a student is taught or expected to learn.


 * [|Profiles of Disabilities:] Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), there are 13 categories under which a student is eligible to receive the protections and services promised by this law. In our disability profiles, we define each disability as specified by IDEA and explain it in plain English; these profiles also outline the common traits and educational challenges associated with each disability, and provide tips for parents and teachers.
 * [|504 Students with Disabilities:] Section 504 covers qualified students with disabilities who attend schools receiving federal money. To be protected under Section 504, a student must be determined to: 1) have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; 2) have a record of such impairment, or 3) be regarded as having such impairment. Section 504 requires that school districts provide a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) to qualified students.
 * [|Examples of modifications and accommodations]from Understood.org