1. Strategies for Adaptation
Providing Support to Diverse Learners
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2. Purpose of this Session
Use guiding questions as teachers plan curriculum adaptations
Based on students’ learning barriers, identify potential adaptations that maintain the rigor and alignment to the Common Core and the NY ELA curriculum
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3. Potential Learning Barriers
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4. Diminishing Barriers to Learning
“Barriers to learning are not, in fact, inherent in the capacities of learners, but instead arise in learners' interactions with inflexible educational goals, materials, methods, and assessments.”
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age, p. v
CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology)
Do you agree? Disagree?
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5. Questions for Today
How can I incorporate guiding questions for adapting curriculum to address the instructional needs of all my students?
How do I bridge the gap between “where my students are” and “where they need to be” using adaptations that address potential learning barriers?
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6. Planning for Curriculum Adaptations
Think about the barriers you previously described.
How do you currently address adapting your curriculum for all learners?
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7. Planning for Curriculum Adaptations
How do you plan and ensure that your adaptations meet the fidelity and rigor of the ELA Standards and Instructional Shifts?
What drives your decisions?
When and how do you make these decisions?
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8. Guiding Questions for Adaptation
Are the outcomes separated from the means?
What curriculum supports will help make learning accessible?
What are the potential learning barriers in the instructional methods or materials?
Consultation, centered in presuming competence and a growth mindset
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9. Barriers, Adaptations, and Practices
Potential Learning Barrier
Adaptations
My Practices
Anchor Standard 10 Read and Comprehend Complex Text Independently and Proficiently
Answer Text-dependent questions
Provide the questions in a written format. Have students underline key words in the question.
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10. Student Profiles Student 1-Claudia Student 2- Caitlin
Consider the guiding questions, potential barriers, and adaptations.
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11. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves- Lesson 8
Review the lesson standards and the mid-unit
assessment.
With a partner, discuss what students must know
and be able to do to show proficiency on the
assessed standard RL
Discuss what potential barriers Claudia and Caitlin may face.
Discuss what a teacher can do to help bridge these gaps.
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12. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves- Lesson 8
In pairs, examine the lesson and highlight those areas where you predict Claudia or Caitlin may struggle.
Look for any patterns.
Write down what students must know and be able to do to be successful in one or two highlighted areas.
Discuss these barriers and how a teacher can adapt instruction to bridge this gap.
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13. Q & A
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14. Discussion & Reflection
How can I incorporate guiding questions for adapting curriculum to address the instructional needs of all my students?
How do I bridge the gap between “where my students are” and “where they need to be using adaptations that address potential learning barriers?
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15. Pulse Check
Please go to engageny.org/novnti and fill out the online plus-delta for the Strategies for Adaptation session.
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16. Online Parking Lot
Please go to engageny.org/novnti and select “Online Parking Lot” for any NYSED related questions.
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