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Learning expectations
Modified learning expectations will be developed to indicate, by reporting period, the specific knowledge and/or skills the student is expected to demonstrate independently, given the provision of appropriate assessment accommodations. All learning expectations must be stated as measurable outcomes for the purposes of evaluation. They should be expressed in such a way that the student and parents can understand exactly what the student is expected to know or to be able to do, on the basis of which his or her per- formance will be evaluated and a grade or mark recorded on the Provincial Report Card. In developing modified expectations for a student, the teacher should take care to provide an appropriate challenge for the student. The expectations should be designed to develop the student’s literacy, numeracy, and cognitive skills, and should be achievable by the student, with reason- able effort, during the reporting period. The grade level of the learning expectations must be identified in the IEP.
The following are examples of acceptably worded modified expectations rep- resenting knowledge and skills from a different grade level:
• “[The student] will demonstrate the ability to recall addition and subtrac- tion facts to 18. (Grade 3 expectation)”
• “[The student] will determine a line of symmetry of a two-dimensional shape by using paper folding and reflections. (Grade 2 expectation)”
• “[The student] will decode 50 new sight words at the mid-Grade 1 level. (Grade 1 expectation)”
In some cases, the student’s program in a particular subject may comprise only a small subset of the regular grade expectations, revised to reduce the level of complexity. For example, a teacher might list the following social studies expectations, modified from the Grade 4 curriculum on Medieval Times, as appropriate for evaluating the achievement of a particular student.
• “[The student] will:
– name four types of people who lived in medieval times;
– construct a medieval castle and demonstrate, through an oral presenta-
tion, two methods that were used to defend a castle;
– compare a medieval community to [the student’s] own community
with respect to housing and dress.
(Social Studies, Grade 4 – Modified expectations)”
When a student is expected to achieve most of the subject expectations at the regular grade level without modifications, this should be stated and the expectations that are modified should be listed. The modified expectations
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