Accessing the General Education Curriculum

40766In this activity, you will log onto the IRIS Vanderbilt website and complete an informative module on how to promote access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities and the challenges of inclusion. Your completed product for this task will be comprised of your responses to the five questions provided in the assessment section of the module. Please click on the following web link to get started. Submit your responses on a word document:

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Access the Vanderbilt Module at http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/agc/challenge/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

1. What are some important steps in interpreting data from high stakes assessments?
2. What does the law say about the instruction and assessment of students with
disabilities? Why is this law important?
3. Why is it important that students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum? Give examples of benefits and negative impacts to students with disabilities.
4. What are some ways to help these students access the general education curriculum?

Give at least 3 specific examples. Find web apps, chrome extensions, or teacher made accommodations/modifications that provide support in the general education environment.

What are accommodations and modifications- provide definitions and examples of each. Define alternate assessments. When should each of these be used?

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