1. Adapting the curriculum or curriculum adaptation is a type of educational strategy
generally aimed at pupils with special educational needs, consisting of the adaptation in the
curriculum of a certain educational level in order to make certain objectives or contained
them most accessible to a student or a certain type of people either delete those items from
the curriculum that will be impossible to achieve by their disability. It is to take into
account the limitations of the student when planning methodology, content and, above all,
the evaluation.
This concept of curriculum adaptation is wide: starting from he could talk about different
levels of accommodations or adjustments, i.e., different levels of adapting the curriculum.
The curriculum proposed by the Government acquires a character open, flexible or
adaptable to the needs and characteristics of the educational community in which the
schools are immersed. This conception allows starting a process of adapting the curriculum
from the first level of specificity - decrees of teachings-to individual curricular adaptation
or group. Thus, the curricular adaptations are intrinsic to the own curriculum. Teaching
teams, departments, teachers or tutors fit the curriculum according to the characteristics of
the students of the cycle or classroom.
