Curriculum Development for Students with Cognitive Disabilities
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Curriculum Development for Students with Cognitive Disabilities
Access to General Education Content Core Curriculum Standards, & IEPS
Denise Clark and Stacey Skoning
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The Challenge for Teachers
• Universities haven’t always prepared teachers of students with Cognitive disabilities to develop academic programs.
• Many districts followed a traditional program with functional goals not related to general education curriculum
• There are several sources of pressure to Re-envision the educational programs of students with intellectual disabilities
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Why are we considering more emphasis on academic programs now?• Research• Experience• Legislation
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Increased Legislative Pressure for Access to General Education Curriculum
NCLB“when measuring Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), states, school districts and schools have the flexibility to count the "proficient" scores of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who take assessments based on alternate achievement standards.” (US DOE)
IDEA 2004“…having high expectations for such children and ensuring their access to the general education curriculum in the regular classroom, to the maximum extent possible, in order to meet the developmental goals and, to the maximum extent possible, the challenging expectations that have been established for all children; and be prepared to lead productive and independent adult lives, to the maximum extent possible." (Section 1400(c)(4)
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How do teachers face the challenge?
• Many teachers we work with have a set of questions first:– What is the point in aligning students’ programs
to academic standards?– Why is general education curricular content
relevant for this population?– Doesn’t this remove “individual” from their IEP?
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Teachers need resources to understand and meet this challenge
• Many teachers lack experiences providing targeted general education curriculum to this population
• Often there are no available models of curricular development that are immersed in the general education curriculum and are individually focused
• Most districts lack a specific process to provide teachers of students with cognitive disabilities structure for curriculum development
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What does academic participation look life for this population?
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An Initial example
• Andy Changing the context of reading instruction
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Some trucks have scoops for pushing.
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Some trucks have buckets to pick things up.
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The Lee Family’s Home
Robert and Ann’s favorite place
was the house where Ann
grew up.
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General Lee
Robert E. Lee had made a very hard choice.
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Moving toward math instruction that aligns to High School Standards
• Pat’s Class
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Pat’s Class
• Pat’s class– High school class for students labeled as CDMS
(Students IQs range 24-67)– Math class always followed a functional
curriculum with an emphasis on counting, shopping, money, time…
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2 years after changing to an academic focus…
• As you watch the video, think about how the teacher has shifted from a functional to academic focus?
• Are the students working on high school curricular goals?
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The following school year…
• How has the students’ thinking changed from last spring to this fall?
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Functional goal within academic context enhances the level of
achievement
• Melinda
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Decrease Behavioral OutburstsUnderstand EmotionsIncrease Vocabulary
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•Mad •Hate
•Happy •Loving
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Examples of academically based goals
• When given five word problems with whole numbers up to 20 requiring any of the four basic mathematical processes (+, -, x, /), the student will use manipulatives or pictures to solve four of the five problems correctly, write the equation for the problem, and explain/demonstrate how the solutions were determined.
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In-depth case study
• Identify core standards for a specific student• Determine goals related to text• Align student’s goals to these academic
outcomes.• Ground students’ learning in a specific text
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How can you support increased experience with General Education
Curriculum?
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Experiences to Identify the Local Curriculum
• Visit general education classrooms• Talk to the colleagues about what they are
teaching• Attend grade level team meetings• Explain to their colleagues the need for access
to general education access, not just least restrictive environment
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Models of Curriculum Development Process
• Michael McSheehan The Beyond Access Model
• Michael Giangreco COACH Edition 3
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How can you support the curricular design process for this population in
your district?