Accommodation Tips

1. Accommodation Tips Ellen J. Stoltz, Ph.D.

2. Introduction • Offer framework for accommodations and modifications • Engaged, productive • Professional Experience

3. Topics of Discussion • Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic/Tactile • Blooms’ Taxonomy • Multiple Intelligences • Sensory/Environmental Conditions

4. V-A-K-T • Four modalities • Learning and Processing • Recognize underpinnings of learning process • Guide how you present teaching and how students express learning

5. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Success at any or all levels • Recognition, Identification, Compare/Contrast • Apply VAKT • What you expect students to learn guides how you teach

6. Multiple Intelligences • Pathways through which students learn and demonstrate understanding • Good teaching encompasses aspects of VAKT, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and MI • How you expect students to demonstrate understanding guides how you teach

7. Real Life • Consideration of sensory needs: hunger, heat, thirst • Consideration of emotional needs: anxiety, fear of failure, learned helplessness • Consideration of environmental needs: sound, movement, light, proximity

8. What This Means • Solutions: • Sensory…nutritional snacks, water breaks, fan • Emotional…time-in/time-out, seating arrangements, planned breaks, encouraging statements, concrete expectations, facial expressions, body language • Environmental…reduce noise, motion, quiet music, stop/go signs,

9. Next Steps • Summary • Questions