Listed below is a Q&A that includes questions frequently asked by parents about Access Points and Essential Understandings (EUs).
What are Access Points?
Access Points are alternate achievement standards built to target the salient content of the Florida Standards. They are designed to frame the instruction and assessment of students with significant cognitive disabilities providing them access to the general education curriculum.
What is the purpose of Access Points?
Access Points are designed to contribute to a fully aligned system of content, instruction, and assessment that focuses on knowledge and skills needed at each grade level to prepare for the next.
What supports are embedded in the Access Points?
Essential Understandings, which are skills that help build the knowledge necessary to master each Access Point.
What are the Essential Understandings (EUs)?
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EUs are not part of the standards.
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EUs are scaffolds that disaggregate access points to help teachers provide instruction.
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EUs provide a variety of entry points where a student may begin to interact with grade level content.
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EUs serve as benchmarks along the continuum of learning to ensure progress toward the access points.