Energy & Fatigue Access: Teacher Accommodation Checklist
Use fictional examples. Leave out diagnoses, medical information, names, passwords and contact details.
Learning goal: Plan and check individualized access for chronic illness and fatigue-related access needs.
Accommodations provide access and do not automatically reduce intellectual expectations. Ask the learner which options are useful and coordinate with the appropriate support team. This checklist supports implementation, not diagnosis or legal compliance certification.
- Use a fictional example or discuss the situation without identifying a child.
- Complete each planning section with the learner’s choices at the center.
- Select one feasible change, who will provide it and when you will check it.
- Keep any completed paper privately; do not use it to diagnose, rank or label a learner.
Grades 3–5 support: Use the prompts and examples, or explain your ideas in your own way. Ask for words, a scribe or one direction at a time.
Access before instruction
Ask about functional access, never medical details on this sheet. Follow individualized plans, allow rest and avoid interpreting fatigue as disengagement. Keep a challenging content goal visible.
Advanced learning goal
Barrier in materials, environment or response demand
Energy & Fatigue Access: Teacher Accommodation Checklist
Implement with responsibility
Select one agreed support and confirm who will provide it before the lesson.
Support, responsible adult and timing
Learner’s preferred communication/check-in
Optional deeper thinking · Grades 6–8
Audit whether the assessment measures the content goal or an unrelated access demand.
Energy & Fatigue Access: Teacher Accommodation Checklist
Review without blame
Use participation and work evidence to assess whether access improved. Revise the support, not the learner’s identity.
Evidence of usable access
Needed revision and review date
My next step
What will I try, and who can support it? Write, draw, dictate, sign or use AAC.
Energy & Fatigue Access: Teacher Accommodation Checklist
Accessibility & alternative responses
Discuss access privately; use de-identified planning. Coordinate specialist formats and equipment rather than claiming a general worksheet provides them.
Teacher facilitation
Ask about functional access, never medical details on this sheet. Follow individualized plans, allow rest and avoid interpreting fatigue as disengagement.
Specialist formats
These printouts are not Braille. Embossed Braille and specialist tactile materials need qualified, technically validated production. The accessible digital version supplies structured text, not a specialist-format substitute.