7.1-Remediation, Intervention, and Accommodation
For every unit a teacher puts together, there are select skills teachers plan to teach during that unit. We introduce the concepts or skills, model with examples, add in scaffolding for those who need graphic organizers, provide feedback and study guides, and ultimately assess the students' understanding of the skills in the unit. But what happens when a student continues to struggle with a skill that will be needed in the next section of the unit or even future units? This is where remediation comes into play.
But first, what is remediation?
"Remediation is an opportunity to provide additional support to those students who still do not understand key concepts in spite of attempts to support them."
What do you remediate?
Not everything being taught needs to be remediated. Skills taught again in later units or “nice-to-knows” that are not essential to mastery may not be necessary.
Material that makes up a substantial part of the assessment content or skills.
Material that is critical to the next unit or later units or study.
Specific concepts with which the student struggles.
Click on each of the graphics below to learn about the difference between remediation, intervention, and accommodation.
To think about:
When should remediation be used?
How often should remediation be used?
What guides teachers towards providing remediation of skills?
When should intervention or accommodations be used rather than remediation?