What are Modifications?

Modifications involve combinations of altered content knowledge, conceptual difficulty, educational goals, and instructional method versus building scaffolding and bridges between existing curriculum and people involved in the educational process.

-Koga and Hall, 2009

• a change in what a student is expected to learn and demonstrate• a change in the instructional level or benchmark• a change in the number of key concepts mastered within a benchmark or unit of study• a change or reduction in learning or assessment expectations

Modifications are…

• May result in implications that could adversely affect a student throughout that individual’s educational career.

Modifications …

“If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child

learns”.- Rita Dunn

Something to think about…