I am a regional trainer for our district and work with special ed/regular ed teachers in collaborative models of teaching. I would like to see the state academic standards implemented in the IEP, however, I rarely see this addressed. If we indeed want our students in the regular classroom (which we do) then I feel standards need to guide our writing of the IEP. Is anyone doing this successfully? What are your state guidelines? Are there national guidelines? I have surf the web until my wrists are worn out. I hate to be the pioneer here. Please feel free to share an example of what a standard looks like in your IEP’s and how you develop rubrics and assessment for those standards. Thanks
Re: Academic Standards in the IEP
As an individual teacher I wrote my secondary students’ IEPS with the state standards in mind, putting down which parts of which ones we’d be working on. There was no state or school encouragement (much less guidelines) — it helped immensely with students and parents who felt they were not being treated as something less than students as far as what they were being taught went.
As an individual teacher I wrote my secondary students’ IEPS with the state standards in mind, putting down which parts of which ones we’d be working on. There was no state or school encouragement (much less guidelines) — it helped immensely with students and parents who felt they were not being treated as something less than students as far as what they were being taught went.