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Personally Relevant: From Different to Differentiated Curriculum
Successful Learning Conference 2013
Bree Jimenez, PhD
University of North Carolina at GreensboroNorth Carolina, United States
Based on: Trela, K., & Jimenez, B., (in press). From functional to personally relevant curriculum: A reflection on the shift from “different” to “differentiated curriculum for students with significant intellectual disabilities. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities.
Academic? Functional?•Brushing teeth•Reading a novel•Solving an Algebra equation•Science experiment on Plate Tectonics•Community Navigation •Calendar skills•Cooking skills•Compare and Contrast two famous
historical figures
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Language • 2010 Rosa’s law (United States - PUBLIC LAW 111–
256)
• “Spread the Word to End the Word” • “person first” language
Influence•“field” •characterize programs and services
▫e.g., IEP - placements along a continuum of support
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NEED FOR CHANGE OF LANGUAGE
• Maintain the individualized nature of special education
• Over emphasis on alignment to content standards could promote IEPs written without attention to the student’s unique needs
• Intent of terminology – “Functional Curriculum”▫promoted independent living▫unintentionally became the “something or
somewhere else”
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Separate Path ??Successful Learning Conference 2013
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Criterion of Ultimate FunctioningBrown, Nietupski, & Hamre-Nietupski, 1976
Static set of community living skills and activities
“Catalog of Skills” Movement –away from Developmental Model
RESPECT = activities that support independent functioning within home, school, and work
communities
Unintended Consequences
Intentions
Solely Functional Curriculum Approach
Separate Curriculum
Need to deliver
instruction in a separate
setting
DIFFERENT
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ACADEMIC FOCUS
Access to general education curriculum (ACARA)
Research
supports meaningfully access and measurable progress toward general curriculum standards.
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Personally Relevant Curriculum
Aligned to grade-appropriate standards
Planned and implemented collaboratively with general education teachers
Assessed with appropriate supports and progress monitoring tools
Designed with explicit connections to school and broader community life
Hunt, McDonnell, & Crocket (2012) provides an ecological curricular framework to guide IEP teams as they balance individual needs of students with significant intellectual disabilities with opportunities to both access and make meaningful progress toward general education curriculum standards (i.e., Australian Curriculum; US Common Core State Standards).
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Kathy is a middle school teacher of students with moderate to severe disabilities in a rural state far from a coast line. Although she whole-heartedly agrees with teaching science to her students, she sometimes wondered about the relevance of some of the concepts she teaches. For example, when teaching about pollution, one of her lessons demonstrated the effects of an oil spill on birds’ feathers. Although the students enjoyed the lesson, she wasn’t sure this was something they might actually encounter in their community. However, she did continue teaching the concept of pollution, particularly air pollution that is caused by burning coal (which is something her students could easily relate to in their community). One spring morning, Kathy’s students came into her classroom discussing “oil” that they had seen on T.V. There had been a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and news coverage of the spill was dominating T.V. broadcasting. Kathy took this opportunity to review with her students what they had learned about the effects of the oil on birds’ feathers and animal fur. She was thrilled with the fact that what she had taught them lead to a pertinent discussion about a current, national event.
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Personally Relevant• Unambiguous focus on curriculum that
is differentiated by making intentional, personally relevant connections to the lives of students with intellectual disabilities
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Although the argument may be made that this is simply a change in labels, we propose that the term reflects a level of differentiation that promotes access to make meaningful progress in the general education curriculum rather than a separate curriculum.
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