Sentences with phrase «access to the general curriculum»

Just as importantly, educators and families must believe that all students deserve access to the general curriculum and are capable of achieving.
Examples include direct instruction with positive reinforcement, thematic instructional units with varied levels of classroom assignments, learning strategies (e. g., mnemonic devices) and utilization of the principles of universal design for leaning, which promote access to the general curriculum for students with learning problems.
Teaching Students with Mental Retardation: Providing Access to the General Curriculum.
Goalbook's online platform helps teachers design learning objectives aligned to research - based frameworks, including Universal Design for Learning, and provides a repertoire of instructional strategies aimed at providing all students access to the general curriculum.
Among Hehir's work recognized by the Federation is his involvement in drafting the 1997 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which ensured children with special needs would gain access to a general curriculum and high quality education programs.
«Providing New Access to the General Curriculum,» in TEACHING Exceptional Children (with C. Hitchcock, R. Jackson, and A. Meyer), (2002)
«We know that when students with disabilities are held to high expectations and have access to the general curriculum in the regular classroom, they excel.
modifying curricula or providing support services that enables access to the general curriculum.
«At national conferences I have seen that some teachers and administrators are beginning to see that segregating students with disabilities in classes without access to the general curriculum or highly qualified — content trained — teachers is partly to blame for the achievement gap,» she said.
Access to the general curriculum with appropriate accommodations or modification that meet the child's needs allows for the child to be exposed to the same or similar concepts as their same age peers.
What high stakes testing DOES DO, is create a standard by which parents and their advocates can demand access to the general curriculum for their child with disabilities.
If schools can deliver and manage access to students» curriculum, will more students with disabilities get access to general curriculum?
specific requirements for students with disabilities for whom the individual education plan (IEP) has determined that participation in the Florida Alternate Assessment is the most appropriate measure of the student's skills and instruction in the access points is the most appropriate means of providing the student access to the general curriculum.
4) Least Restrictive Environment is the principle that students with disabilities, to the greatest degree possible, must have access to the general curriculum and be taught with their nondisabled peers.
Accountability without structure simply does not make sense, and that is why we must not jettison IDEA's assurances of «zero reject,» fair evaluation, appropriate education, access to the general curriculum, procedural safeguards, and parent empowerment.
In addition, before this last - minute waiver request to lower the bar further, on November 29th a host of advocates wrote to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging her to «to reject New York's requested waivers under ESSA... If granted, these waivers would undermine students» access to the general curriculum and would be contrary to the spirit and intent of the ESSA.»
An essential tenet of both the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), is the fact that states must ensure that all students, including students with significant cognitive disabilities, have access to a general curriculum that encompasses challenging academic standards.
If granted, these waivers would undermine students» access to the general curriculum and would be contrary to the spirit and intent of the ESSA.
Careful alignment of curriculum and instruction to the standards set for all students, along with the necessary learning supports, ensures that students with disabilities have access to the general curriculum and are held to high standards (Porter & Smithson, 2001).
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