Barton Classroom

 Accommodations 

Accommodations are practices and procedures in the areas of presentation, response, setting, and timing/scheduling that provide equitable access during instruction and assessments for students with disabilities without invalidating the construct.

Accommodations are intended to reduce the effects of a student’s disability by giving the student access to the content or assessment; they do not, however, reduce learning expectations. The accommodations provided to a student may be the same for classroom instruction, classroom assessments, and district and state assessments.

An educational team (parents, teachers, students, etc.) should decide on what accommodations a student needs to access the instructional content. To learn more about accommodations and the K12 Curriculum view the following Elluminate Session: http://tinyurl.com/RRN-LC-9-13-10

 Students in the Barton Program should NOT do the K12 Phonics or Spelling, but should do all other K12 curriculum with the appropriate accommodations as decided by the educational team. 

Scantron Performance Series

If your student uses the below accommodations in every day instruction and assessment, they may use the following accommodations while they are taking the Scantron Performance Series for Reading. Math and Science (If applicable).If you have any questions, please contact your COVA teacher. 

1. READING: Teacher read directions for reading The learning coach may read the directions, but they may not read the questions or the passages. The student needs to read these on their own because reading is being assessed.  
2. Math and Science: Oral Presentation for math and science. The learning coach may read all of the questions and answers, but they may not elaborate at all on the test.
3. Math: Students may draw their own math fact tables and use them during the test, but they may not use calculators.   

To learn more about accommodations check out CDE's Accommodation's manual....