Accommodations as Solutions: Scheduling

List of needs and solutions

Solutions in Instructional Methods and Materials

• Provide clear schedule with checkpoints along the way.
• Use regular routines and procedures for transitions in class.
• Give student agenda or schedule for the day.
• Use timer to define work times.
• Give student tasks to complete in short periods of time.

Solutions in Assignments and Assessments

Support

• Place timetable or assignment list on student's desk.
• Teach student to use paper or electronic calendar or personal planner to track assignments and work.
• Use reward system to motivate timely assignment completion.
• Break long-term assignment into parts with correcponding due dates.
• Reduce length of assignment, or allow more time.
• Give student extended time for assignments and assessments.
• At first, give partial credit for late or incomplete assignments, until student is able to complete.
• Give assignment ahead of time to increase student's time to work on it.
• Use flexible scheduling, such as summer school, so student has more time to complete a course.

Classroom Tests

• Give shorter tests more frequently.
• Give student additional time to take test.
• Let student take breaks during test period.
• Break test into sections; let student take test over a period of days if needed.

FCAT

• Administer portion of test at specific time of day.
• Give student extended time to complete test.
• Let student take breaks during test period.
• Break test into sections; let student take test over a period of days if needed.

List of needs and solutions