Adapting Instruction

Adapting instruction is important. Discuss two reasons why this is so. Adapting instruction important because it makes changes to instruction in order to allow students equal access to the curriculum and to give students the opportunity to process and demonstrate what has been taught. Instructional adaptations can include both accommodations and modification Accommodations include services related to a student's disability that help them to fully access the subject matter and accurately demonstrate such knowledge without fundamental alterations to the standard or expectation of the assignment or test. For ex: children with IEP (Individual Education Plans whereas they may have learning disabilities where given extra time to complete test and task.  Modifications which include services related to a student's disability in order to help a student access the subject matter and demonstrate knowledge, but in this case the services and supports do fundamentally alter the standard or expectation of the assignment or test. I have noticed with the children at Daycare.  Some children may have five spelling words where others may have ten. This would be an example of modification.