Teaching Diverse Students

Functional Academics

This project shows how I understand that to apply real world applications of content and skills that are associate with core academic subject areas you need functional academics. Students with intellectual disabilities and other disabilities would benefit from functional academics. These students require more specific, intensive, and repetitive teaching skills. This is highlights 1D in which a teacher understands the impact of cognitive, emotional, physical, and sensory disabilities on learning and communication pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (also referred to as “IDEA”) (20 USC 1400 et seq.), its implementing regulations (34 CFR 300; 2006), Article 14 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/Art.14] and 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226 (Special Education).

Lesson Plan - Reading Charlotte's Web Chapter 12

This lesson plan shows inclusion of accommodations, modifications, and planned support, serves as a rational illustration of Standard 1, particularly emphasizing 1H's directive to analyze and use student information for tailored instruction. The lesson plans show the accommodations as preferential seating, minimize distractions in the environment, allow freedom to move about, stand, and pace if needed, first/then schedule. Also reduce the number of choices, simplify language in directions, multimodal instruction, AAC device for communication, modeling, prompts, and large print. The lesson plan's modifications are reworded questions in simpler language, modified grades based on IEP, and reduce reading level.