Creating a Common Vocabulary
Backmapping – means starting with the highest grade–level band and
determining what should be taught in the previous grade in order for
students to meet the standard.
Montgomery County Public Schools,(MCPS), Rockville, MD Office of Superintendent of Schools Memorandum, July 2,
2001, Subject: Request Approval of Grades Pre-K-8 Curriculum, pages 1-2
Differentiation – an instruction system in which the teacher employs
varied approaches to content, process, and product in anticipation of
learners’ varying degree of readiness and divergent interests and learning.
Bauer, Ed.D., Anne M.; Shea, Ed. D., Thomas M. Inclusion 101, Paul H. Brookes Publishing, Post Office Box 10624,
Baltimore, Maryland 21285-0624, 1999, p. 70.
Scaffolded Inst ruction- temporary and adjusted support for the
development of new skills
Bauer, Ed.D., Anne M.; Shea, Ed. D., Thomas M. Inclusion 101, Paul H. Brookes Publishing, Post Office Box 10624,
Baltimore, Maryland 21285-0624, 1999, p. 255.
Strategy inst ruction – an alternative format for working with students
with disabilities that does not focus on helping the students keep up with the
day –to-day demands of content learning but redirects their energies toward
enabling them to learn strategies by which they can keep up with those
demands themselves.
Bauer, Ed.D., Anne M.; Shea, Ed. D., Thomas M. Inclusion 101, Paul H. Brookes Publishing, Post Office Box 10624,
Baltimore, Maryland 21285-0624, 1999, p. 255. (King-Sears, 1997)
Accessibility Planning- A structured way to plan access to the curriculum
for students with disabilities or other learning needs in any content area.
There are four steps:
1. Focus on the lesson
2. Focus on the student
3. Identify barriers
4. Determine strategies and resources
• Within your instructional materials
• In addition to your instructional needs
MCPS Systemwide Professonal Development –Grades 1 & @ Special Education – January 2005
Barrier– limit student engagement and learningInteraction between materials, methods, and student weaknesses and missed
opportunities created in the intersection between materials, teaching
approaches and student strengths or interests.
Meyer, Anne & Rose, David H. with Rappolt, Gabrielle & Strangman, Niole (2002). Teaching Every Student in The
Digital Ag Universal Design For Learning, Alexandria ,Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development.p.184
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