Iep Meeting Video

I watched the YouTube video for my IEP meeting. The school had large IEP meetings. The Special Education teacher was responsible for coordinating the meeting. She can teach other teachers without her qualifications about complex terms. “In order to be prepared to educate students with special needs in the regular education classroom, new teachers need to know the terms and have information about the responsibilities associated with these students” (Lapairie, 23). There was one teacher who took notes of the entire meeting. The kid, Dominic attended, along with his parents. There was a regular education teacher. The school psychologist sat in on the meeting, along with the Assistant Principal representing the district, and a teacher from the middle school Dominic will be going to next year. Everybody in the meeting worked collaboratively, with the parents having the final say. It was the Special Education teacher who wrote the IEP itself. The meeting was during a school day, and I do not know how it was scheduled. I assume that a letter was sent home with Dominic to his parents which included email addresses which the teachers could be contacted at. Then the parents had to find a day during school hours where they could both take a day off work. It seemed like this could happen any time of day. If a parent cannot attend, there could potentially be a Skype conference, a general phone conference, or simply send the IEP after the meeting, and ask the …show more content…
This meeting focused on Dominic’s continuing 5th grade year, along with his future in middle school. If Dominic was older, the meeting may have a larger focus on his potential jobs and plans as an adult. “A fundamental purpose of secondary school is to assist youth in their transition into adulthood by continuing to establish the foundation upon which a satisfying life emanates and progresses overtime” (Targett, 229). There are 504 plans, which would fit that