Instructional Strategies and Assessment Practices for Teaching ALL Learners

This workshop is designed to help educators implement inclusive teaching practices that support the diverse needs of all students. It provides strategies for lesson design, scaffolding, and assessment that ensure equity and access to rigorous learning for students with different abilities, backgrounds, and learning styles. Through case studies, practical examples, and collaborative planning, teachers learn how to integrate modifications and accommodations into everyday instruction. The session emphasizes co-teaching, flexible grouping, and active engagement techniques to create classrooms where every learner can succeed.

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• Limited access to learning for students with IEPs, English Language Learners, and gifted students.
  
  
• Lack of engagement in traditional lessons that rely heavily on one-size-fits-all instruction.
  
  
• Difficulty aligning instructional modifications with assessments to truly measure target skills rather than access barriers.

1. Designing Inclusive Lessons: Participants learn how to adapt instruction using scaffolds, flexible grouping, visual tools, and varied resources so that all learners can access grade-level content while working toward independence.
   
   
2. Implementing Effective Modifications and Accommodations: Educators gain strategies to systematically incorporate student-specific supports, ensuring assessments measure true content mastery rather than being limited by access skills (e.g., time management, writing fluency).
   
   
3. Engaging All Learners Through Active and Collaborative Approaches: Teachers explore participation techniques (e.g., peer-mediated instruction, choice boards, guided notes, movement-based activities) that enhance engagement, collaboration, and equitable opportunities for student expression