How do you apply instructional
accommodations, modifications, and
adaptations to meet the needs of each
individual learner to whole group time/
lessons?
Rephrase/ simplify tricky
wording or instruction
"'Sum' just means what this
number and this number put
together is" -- could be
frontloading
Defining words that students
may not know yet, or words
that sound the same/ are
spelled the same but that
have different meanings.
Bug - an insect, or tiny animal, like
crickets; annoy -- could make a
chart for tricky words
Frontloading
Activating the child's
background knowledge and
relating it to the lesson
Predicting what a story
might be about before
reading
Knowledge of Teaching and Learning
How do you engage EVERY
student? (Most students) What
about the students that are more
challenging to engage?
Keep lesson interactive
Sharing pen/ dry erase
marker when writing in
front of class
Not fully teacher
directed, but encouraging
children to write the
story.
Asking questions --
could relate to chart
Maintaining
conversational
environment
Allowing children to share
thoughts/ opinions -- connected to
journal entries.
After-lesson activities
Small group projects
Manipulatives, poster
boards, games -- could also
be a chart
Charts
KWL charts,
questioning chart
Journals
Journal writing
about the lesson
Math journals -
problem solving word
problems
Knowledge of Diversity
How can I best accelerate
language acquisition for an ELL
without rushing the student?
Repeating what they
say back to them, with
grammar/ syntax
corrections
"Me and my mom goed
yesterday to store." "Oh, you
and your mom went to the
store yesterday? What did
you buy?" -- rephrasing to
modify for child's needs
Practicing known sight words
before a lesson and introducing
new sight word after lesson