The programs and services offered by the Middlefield Special Education Department are for students with an Individual Education Plan (IEP), including students who have not been formally identified with an IPRC.
An Individual Education Plan, or IEP, is prepared for all students who have been identified as being exceptional. The IEP allow students to receive accommodations, or modifications in the curriculum in order to support the student's needs.
The term accommodations is used to refer to the special teaching and assessment strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment required to enable a student to learn and to demonstrate learning. Accommodations do not alter the provincial curriculum expectations for the grade.
Modifications are changes made in the age-appropriate grade-level expectations for a subject or course in order to meet a student's learning needs. This means that if a course is modificied that it is unlikely that a credit will be granted as the student will have not met the requirements of the course. This decision is made at the discretion of the principal.These changes may involve developing expectations that reflect knowledge and skills required in the curriculum for a different grade level and/or increasing or decreasing the number and/or complexity of the regular grade level curriculum expectations
Generally, in language and mathematics, modifications involve writing expectations based on the knowledge and skills outlined in curriculum expectations for a different grade level . In other subjects, including science and technology, social studies, history, geography, and health and physical education, and in most secondary school courses, modifications typically involve changing the number and/or complexity of the regular grade-level expectations . The student may also require certain accommodations to help him or her achieve the learning expectations in subjects or courses with modified expectations.