Student Accommodations

Accommodations are defined as:

Strategies and provisions provided by the teacher to enable students to meet the curriculum expectations.

Every ELL is entitled to receive accommodations. They are appropriate when the student is able to work at grade level expectations. If the student is not able to work at grade level expectations, it will be necessary to modify his or her academic program. Please refer to the 'Program Modifications' tab for more information.

Types of Accommodations

Content Accommodations:

• Substitute texts with less difficult material

• Reduce amount of material by focusing on significant details

• Provide visual support, especially when introducing new concepts or abstract ones

• Link material to students' prior knowledge

Delivery Accommodations:

• Alter rate of delivery depending on the task and response of learners

• Repeat important phrases, especially when asked

• Review content on a regular basis

• Model procedures and behaviours, provide samples of work

• Pre-teach vocabulary and concepts and provide focus questions at start of lesson

• Partner students with a view to their strengths

• Encourage verbal rehearsal before a writing task

• Keep routines, procedures and expectations consistent and structured to increase comprehension

• Use a variety of media in programme delivery

• Take the students' learning styles into account when delivering material (e.g. visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.)

• Be flexible enough to change when students need a different method of delivery

Assessment Accommodations:

• Reduce written output

• When testing for skills, simplify content; when testing content, simplify language skills

• Grant time extensions

• Alter language expectations to reflect the students' stage of language acquisition

• Provide elements of choice in the process and the product

• Provide peer- and self-evaluation opportunities

• Make students aware of the expectations ahead of time

• Provide practise evaluations