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Adapted Math Curriculum For Students With Mild to Moderate Support Needs in an Inclusive Elementary Classroom

With the growing support of special education and changes in legislation, individuals with disabilities are being taught in inclusive environments alongside their peers. Inclusive education provides students with varying disabilities the opportunity to learn in a general education setting while receiving appropriate aids and supports. These supports are in the form of accommodations and/or modifications and allow students to participate and learn the core content curriculum related to the state standards and students’ individual goals. General education teachers and education specialists are tasked with providing adapted curriculum for students with disabilities. With limited exposure and training in curriculum adaptations, students may not be receiving the appropriate accommodations and modifications that grant students access to the general education curriculum. Sample adaptations and training is needed for educators to understand why they should be adapting curriculum, and how they can do so. This project explores the importance of adapting curriculum for students with mild to moderate support needs in inclusive elementary classrooms. Based on the findings in the literature review, this project presents adapted versions of math lessons from various modules along with assessments for the modules for fourth-grade students. The project gives teachers examples of various ways curriculum can be adapted along with showing the importance of utilizing an adapted curriculum in better supporting their students with disabilities.

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