Describe the concept of the expanded core curriculum and areas of potential modification to curricula for students with visual impairments
What will be an ideal response?
The expanded core curriculum is the existing core curriculum plus the additional areas of learning needed by students who are visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities. Additional areas may include compensatory academic skills, including communication modes; orientation and mobility; social interaction skills; independent living skills; recreation and leisure skills; career education; use of assistive technology, and visual efficiency skills.
Issues addressed by inclusion also apply here—including students with visual impairments in all class activities, using texts and other content materials that describe students with visual impairments, and so on. Additional elements of the curriculum might include orientation and mobility training and development of listening skills. Further resources might include Braille books, audio resources and books on tape, and low-vision aids.
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a. performance phase b. strategic-planning phase c. self-reflection phase d. forethought phase
List five factors that contributed to the emergence of the middle school
What will be an ideal response?
When considering the results from standardized tests, teachers
a. should recognize that standardized tests are always correct. b. should be cautious in interpreting standardized test results. c. can never rely on standardized test results. d. none of the above are true.
Through an __________ approach a test of goals in real work environments provides addi-tional information about the individual and potential environments
A Self-determination B. Transition C. Ecological D. Mobility