Case
SPED Student with minimum testing accommodations

Mrs. Daisy is a third grade inclusion teacher. She has a SPED student in her classroom who is not performing on tests and her grades are suffering. The only testing accommodations in place now are small group testing. Mrs. Daisy has tried reading the test aloud to this student before and it makes a tremendous difference. Mrs. Daisy was told to not do this because they needed the negative data to prove that this student would benefit from further accommodations. Mrs. Daisy understands this, but is concerned because this student can not afford for her grades to drop any further. What can Mrs. Daisy do?

Posted on: 10/17/14 | Views: 867
Solution #1
Mrs. Daisy should give the student the test without accommodations, and then again with those reading accommodations. That documentation is proof to the specific needs that student has. The more documentation you have to the specific needs of a child are priceless in providing proof as to exactly what accommmodations might benefit that student. Then the teacher has valid and relevant proof to advocate for that child's rights.
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Solution #2
As a special education teacher I understand having the data to prove more accommodations are needed. However, the data is there if before the read aloud she was failing and with the read aloud she is making progress. I would suggest for an IEP and show the data you have collected to prove the read aloud accommodation are needed.
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Solution #3
The teacher can get a Lexie level for the student. If the student meets the requirements for read aloud for testing then it can be added to the accommodations. The teacher can also allow test corrects for the student until the dats is collected for the additional testing accommodation.
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Solution #4
Unfortunately, that is the name of the game. Data moves mountains but children fall back in the meantime. Meet them in the middle. Collect your data for the day and read the remainder to the child until you can get the accommodation set.
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Solution #5
In order to meet the needs of data collection and the needs of the student, Mrs. Daisy can allow the student to take the assessment on her own. Mrs. Daisy can then remediate the student on the content and re-test, with the read-aloud accommodations. This will give the student an opportunity to pass but still give the ESP team the data needed to get the student the further accommodations needed for success.
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