Usability Resource for Teaching with Accommodations
Link to suggested Accommodations by Cognitive Weakness
ai tool for creating re-leveled text and other accommodations
ai tool for creating re-leveled text and other accommodations
Listen to audio recordings instead of reading text
Learn content from audiobooks, movies, videos and digital media instead of reading print versions
Work with fewer items per page or line and/or materials in a larger print size
Have a designated reader
Hear instructions orally
Record a lesson, instead of taking notes
Have another student share class notes with him
Be given an outline of a lesson
Use visual presentations of verbal material, such as word webs and visual organizers
Be given a written list of instructions
Give responses in a form (oral or written) that’s easier for him
Dictate answers to a scribe
Capture responses on an audio recorder
Use a spelling dictionary or electronic spell-checker
Use a word processor to type notes or give responses in class
Use a calculator or table of “math facts”
Work or take a test in a different setting, such as a quiet room with few distractions
Sit where he learns best (for example, near the teacher)
Use special lighting or acoustics
Take a test in small group setting
Use sensory tools such as an exercise band that can be looped around a chair’s legs (so fidgety kids can kick it and quietly get their energy out)
Take more time to complete a task or a test
Have extra time to process oral information and directions
Take frequent breaks, such as after completing a task
Take more time to complete a project
Take a test in several timed sessions or over several days
Take sections of a test in a different order
Take a test at a specific time of day
Use an alarm to help with time management
Mark texts with a highlighter
Have help coordinating assignments in a book or planner
Receive study skills instruction
BCSD Nondiscrimination Statement
The Bakersfield City School District (BCSD) is committed to equal opportunity for all individuals in education and in employment. BCSD prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics of age, ethnicity or race, which is inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks, and twists, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identifications, religion, pregnancy, marital status, parental status, physical disability, mental disability, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, medical information, genetic information, homelessness, foster status, military veteran status, political affiliation or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws consistent with Education Code 200, 220 and 234.1, Penal Code 422.55, Government Code 11135, and Title IX. Not all bases of discrimination will apply to both education services and employment. If you believe you, or your student, have been subjected to discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying you should contact your school site principal and/or the District’s Chief Compliance and Title IX Officer, Erin Johnston, by phone at (661) 631-4663, by email at johnstone@bcsd.com, or in person at 1300 Baker Street, Bakersfield, CA 93305. Copies of BCSD’s Uniform Complaint policy, Sexual Harassment policy, and Nondiscrimination policies are available upon request.
Aviso de No Discriminación
El Distrito Escolar de la Ciudad de Bakersfield (BCSD, sigla en inglés) está comprometido con la igualdad de oportunidades para todas las personas en la educación y en el empleo. El BCSD prohíbe la discriminación, el acoso, la intimidación y el acoso en cualquier práctica laboral, programa educativo o actividad educativa sobre la base y/o asociación con una persona o grupo con una o más de estas características reales o percibidas de edad, origen étnico o raza que incluye rasgos históricamente asociados con la raza, incluidos, entre otros, la textura del cabello y los peinados protectores, como trenzas, mechones y giros, color, ascendencia, nacionalidad, origen nacional, estado de inmigración, identificaciones de grupos étnicos, religión, embarazo, estado civil, estado parental, discapacidad física, discapacidad mental, sexo (incluido el acoso sexual), orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, información médica, información genética, indigencia, estado de crianza, estado de veterano militar, afiliación política o cualquier otra base prohibida por las leyes de no discriminación estatales y federales de California de conformidad con el Código de Educación 200, 220 y 234.1, Código penal 422.55, Código de gobierno 11135 y Título IX. No todas las bases de discriminación se aplicarán tanto a los servicios educativos como al empleo. Si cree que usted o su estudiante han sido objeto de discriminación, acoso, intimidación o acoso escolar, debe comunicarse con el director de su escuela y/o con la Directora de Cumplimiento y Título IX del Distrito, Erin Johnston, por teléfono al (661) 631 -4663, por correo electrónico a johnstone@bcsd.com, o en persona en 1300 Baker Street, Bakersfield, CA 93305. Copias de la política de Quejas Uniformes del BCSD, la política de Acoso Sexual y las políticas de No Discriminación están disponibles a pedido.
Provides information about and strategies for Universal Design for Learning.
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