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20 QUESTIONS
PARENTS SHOULD ASK AT THE IEP
If I hear just one more time how cute or how polite my son is I may never recover from the screaming meemies that will immediately descend upon me. It is wonderful that you recognize his cuteness but his cuteness will not improve his functional reading s...
DEFINING MEASURABLE GOAL COMPONENTS
If you have a student with an IEP you have read lots of goals, but do you have any idea about how appropriate a given goal is? Will this goal lead to any functional outcomes or is this just one more exercise in frustration? So how can I tell that the goal is a go...
SMARTER GOALS – R
RESEARCH/EVIDENCE-BASED METHODS SHOULD BE USED.
So why the emphasis on research/evidence based methods or programs? If you google something like "teach phonics step by step" you will have a mere 1,460,000 responses to plow through and figure out which ones work and which on...
SMARTER GOALS - E
EVALUATION OF THE DATA MUST BE DEFINED AND REVIEWED BY THE TEAM WITH READJUSTMENTS TO THE IEP BASED ON THAT DATA. IF THE DATA IS NOT RELEVANT OR SPECIFIC ENOUGH THE IEP OUTCOMES WILL SUFFER AND CHANGES ARE “BEST GUESSES” VS DATA-DRIVEN.
When determining what data will be coll...
SMARTER GOALS - TEACH
TEACHING MUST BE INDIVIDUALIZED WITH SDIs & RELATED SERVICES
Special Education is specially designed instruction (SDI's)and the related services needed by the child to benefit from that instruction according to the US Dept of Education.
Instructional Aids, Services, Supp...
SMARTER GOALS – R
GOALS MUST BE RELEVANT TO CURRICULUMS: General/Core, Modified, Expanded, & Functional
- General Education - Core Curriculum - Subject centered
- Use of State Standards or Common Core Standards2
- Modified Core Curriculum - Subject centered
- Based on ability and prio ...
SMARTER GOALS - A
DEFINE ATTAINABLE ADVANCEMENT THAT IS TIME BOUND.
So many times goals are about balance in addition to all of the other issues that need to be considered. The goal needs to be attainable within the year, yet there needs to be enough challenge to it that progress toward greate...
SMARTER GOALS – M
MEASURABLE AND MEANINGFUL DATA COLLECTION MUST BE ESTABLISHED
Identification of needs requires defined meaningful data collection that determines next steps in evaluations, research based programing, & other areas of need. The IEP is designed in order to allow the child:
- T...
SMARTER GOALS CREATE IMPROVED IEP OUTCOMES
YOU NEED TO KNOW ENOUGH -
TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS -
TO GET THE RIGHT ANSWERS
What you don’t know will hurt you!
November of 1981, the issue of Management Review contained a paper, There's a S.M.A.R.T. Way To Write Management's Goals...
PITFALLS TO AVOID
WHEN HOMESCHOOLING
Truancy, Compliance, and
Progress Monitoring
By: Jen Fauls-Leaver
New groups of homeschooling families are being welcomed each day. Many families are feeling they are not ready to have their children return to in-person schooling and inste...
BEHAVIORAL CURRICULUM
The last of the five curriculums you will find in an IEP is that for behavior. The behavior curriculum is implemented when a student’s behavior impedes the student’s learning or that of others. At that point the IEP team must consider the use of positive behavioral interventi...
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