LESSONS
LESSON 8
 
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LESSON 8: Allowable Supports for Students with Disabilities and English Learners
There are a wide range of allowable supports that you can use to help both students with disabilities and English learners to access the KRA. And that is the key idea here - access. You never change any of the items on the KRA or what they're meant to measure. You use supports so all students can access a specific item on the KRA and offer a response that you can score. In rare situations, even with allowances, a child still will not be able to access an item and/or give a response. In those very infrequent cases, you simply would register that item as "Not Scorable" for the child.

KRA allowances are broken into two categories:
  • Universally designed allowances, which can be used - and potentially be helpful - for any student; an example would be repeating the script for an item.
  • Specific accommodations, which are to be used when universally designed allowances are not sufficient to allow a student to participate in the KRA; examples would be braille or sign language.
When considering allowances, it's always a great idea for general educators to collaborate with special educators and/or English language teachers. Putting your heads together makes it easier to find solutions that are both useful and appropriate.
Watch the video to learn about how teachers use the allowable supports.
TIP
There are a wide range of allowable supports that you can use to assess all of your students. Supports never change the content of the KRA items or what you are evaluating - they simply give students a way to interact with the KRA so that you can collect the data you need to support their learning and development.
LEARN MORE
Visit Module 1, Supporting Individual Children, in the professional development site to access the Guidelines on Allowable Supports or for more information.

For practice on Universally Designed Allowances, check out Andy's World.