Educational Accommodations

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Often students can't succeed following a normal instructional plan, so we help them out in many different ways. Teachers and support staff members need to know what help is available. Together, we can ensure every student gets what he or she needs to be successful.

The following list is not in any particular order. Accommodations are made for students as they are needed, in an order unique to that student. In addition, this list is dynamic programs and contact people continually change.

Transition Card Discussed•Each student has a transition card on which data is recorded from the previous year.

•Teachers will study the behavior card to try to find any patterns that can help to solve any current problems.

•Former teachers may be contacted to see determine what interventions during the previous year worked.

Mac School Data for Student Info•Looking at a student's daily schedule can show patterns that might be helpful in whatever problem might be occurring.

•A small schedule change might be the ticket.

Permanent Record for Student Info•Teachers and counselors will look at the student's permanent record to see if anything in the student's academic history might help in solving the current problem.

Team Meeting with Student•Meeting with the student is a good first step. Sometimes the student can pin point what is wrong and give the team suggestions.

•Sometimes meeting with the student can give the team ideas about how to help.

Parent Contact(s)•Teachers should be committed to contacting parents when there is any type of problem that can't be easily resolved at school.

Team Meeting with Student & Parent•At a parent conference, the whole team can brainstorm ways the student can be helped in school.

Classroom Interventions•Provide NotesoSome students can't follow during note-taking or can't transfer information from the overhead to their paper. Teachers can...