Posted by Michelle Kumar on 1/03/09

I work at a private, independent college prep school and
have been asked to share examples of pre-teaching and
forms of alternative assessments with high school math and
science teachers that have students on a 504 Plan.

My background is teaching elementary school special
education in a public school setting for 14 years, so I'm
having a hard time coming up with specific examples of
these accommodations other than pre-teaching vocabulary
and core concepts/topics in the upcoming lesson or for
alternative assessments, giving verbal tests/quizzes or
providing word banks for those with spelling issues. If
any of you can share some examples of what you do to
assess science skills in an alternative way and/or what
you to do "pre-teach" then that would be great.

I've been trying to find books or resources on
accommodations at the middle/high school level, but I
haven't been able to find anything that meets my needs.
The students I work with are all high-fuctioning
LD/ADHD/Anxiety students and most of what I find out there
is for students that are performing way below their grade
levels. I've also emailed many college Learning Resource
Centers but none have replied to me, so I was hoping that
I would be able to hear some ideas from secondary teachers
on teachers.net. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks - Michelle in WA

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