Physical Space

Environment is flexible to accommodate the teaching and learning needs. 

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Vary the Methods for Response & Navigation

Learners differ widely in their capacity to navigate their physical environment. To reduce barriers to learning that would be introduced by the motor demands of a task, provide alternative means for response, selection, and composition. In addition, learners differ widely in their optimal means for navigating through information and activities. To provide equal opportunity for interaction with learning experiences, an instructor must ensure that there are multiple means for navigation and control is accessible.

• Provide alternatives in the requirements for rate, timing, speed, and range of motor action required to interact with instructional materials, physical manipulatives, and technologies
• Provide alternatives for physically responding or indicating selections (e.g., alternatives to marking with pen and pencil, alternatives to mouse control)
• Provide alternatives for physically interacting with materials by hand, voice, single switch, joystick, keyboard, or adapted keyboard

Quality Student to Student Interactions/Academic Discourse

Classrooms support students development of language/academic language through quality interactions

• Provide opportunities for student-to-student interaction as part of daily learning
• Support sustained dialogue between peers which builds on the participants’ ideas. Participants use academic language, ask questions and reason together to promote understanding of concepts
• Use collaborative transfer tasks or activities which require students to solve complex problems and apply what they have learned to novel situations.