Alignment to Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards articulate the need to challenge all students to a high standard of learning, but they also recognize the unique needs of students with severe disabilities and the need to provide them with supports for learning. States are working on extensions of the Common Core State Standards to address the learning abilities and requirements of students with special needs. The Styer-Fitzgerald Program for Functional Academics' teaching instructions with each lesson and integrated on-going data collection procedures incorporate best practices recognized as vital to effective extension of Common Core State Standards to students with moderate to severe disabilities.
The Styer-Fitzgerald Program for Functional Academics
The Styer-Fitzgerald Program for Functional Academics
- Provides lessons in multiple functional academics content areas with a direct relationship or a supporting relationship to language arts and math Common Core State Standards.
- Provides goals and objectives which can be used to create IEPs, and which, with teacher understanding of distinctive district or state requirements, may be modified to address pertinent Common Core State Standards.
- Is easily adapted to accommodate various means of demonstrating knowledge.
- Incorporates instructional procedures and materials which are in line with the CCSS recognition of the need for "supports for learning" while still challenging students to their highest possible level of learning.
- Includes assessment for accurate placement in the curriculum and on-going progress assessment integrated into teaching procedures. In combination, the built-in assessment procedures provide an accurate picture of student achievement which leads to steady, continuous progress. The assessment data also provides a clear picture of academic growth over time, useful for IEP and other required progress reports.
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