Accommodation: In Lesson 1, accommodation refers to flexibility in instruction, practice, or assessment that maintains the same content and same criteria for students who require accommodations as that which is required for typical students; as in some students may silently read the novel and respond to corresponding analysis and synthesis questions, while a student who requires an accommodation may listen to the novel on tape and respond to corresponding analysis and synthesis questions; note the essential nature of accommodations are made in light of student needs for an accommodation matched to the outcome matched to the instruction.

Adaptation: In Lesson 1, adaptation refers to flexibility in instruction, practice, or assessment that maintains the same content yet has minor changes in criteria for students who require adaptations as that which is required for typical students; as in some students may silently read the novel and respond to corresponding analysis and synthesis questions, while a student who requires an adaptation may listen to the novel on tape and respond to fewer or less difficult questions; similarly, a student who responds to more difficult questions than the rest of the class may also be receiving an adaptation, as a case in which a student labeled gifted and talented reads two novels and answers corresponding analysis and synthesis questions for each novel; note the essential nature of adaptations are made in light of student needs for an adaptation matched to the outcome matched to the instruction.

Content: Used throughout this module to depict the overall curriculum or course that teachers are teaching; content includes the skills, knowledge, and processes that students need in order to be successful within the curriculum

Outcome: Used throughout this module to mean the endpoint or end goal for what students are learning; may be a synonym in some literature, research, and school systems for "standard" or "competency" or "objective" or "benchmark;" the outcome, for example, is the endpoint of learning that teachers are moving toward, as in the unit outcome, course outcome; answers the question "what do you want students to know and be able to do by the end of this unit or course?"