Understanding Accommodations, Modifications, and Interventions

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Understanding Accommodations and Interventions Quiz

Test your knowledge on accommodations, modifications, and interventions in education with our engaging quiz! This quiz aims to enhance your understanding of these vital concepts that promote inclusive learning environments for all students.

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Defined by Gal, Schreur, & Engel-Yeger, (2010), inclusion is:

A philosophy of acceptance and belonging to the community and is designed to meet the needs of all students

The use of accommodations, modifications, and interventions

Different cultures, speaking different first languages, and different skill levels

Why do educators need a working knowledge of accommodations, modifications, and interventions

Teachers have expressed confusion regarding these terms and made errors regarding their use

Teachers are exploring various interventions within their school district's multi-tiered or Response to Intervention system

The percentage of students with disabilities receiving the majority of their instruction in general education classrooms continues to rise

All of the above

Accommodations:

Are large changes in how teachers present content or how the student demonstrates knowledge

Alter learning outcomes for students

Provide student access to the curriculum or assessments

Focus on teaching students different skills

Hall's 4 main accommodation categories include: (select all correct answers)

Setting accommodations

Presentation accommodations

Response accommodations.

Reporting accommodations

Modifications:

Are minor changes to the curriculum

Should be used sparingly because they can lower standards

Do not include things like changing a task from recall to recognition

Should be determined at the end of the unit.

Intervenions:

Are actions that produce student learning in social, behavioral, or academic skills.

Ineffective interventions include providing clear and explicit instruction, reviewing frequently, modeling a new skill, providing sufficient student practice of the skill, providing specific student feedback (Boyle & Scanlon, 2010)

Do not include teaching metacognitive strategies, using explicit instruction, teaching appropriate social behaviors, helping students generalize skills to various tasks and environments (Ziegler & McLeskey, 2016)

Do not include using Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) and peer tutoring (Maheady, Mallette, & Harper, 2006).

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