Summary The IEP Process as a Tool for Collaboration describes the thorough process and different components that are involved when developing an IEP for a student with disabilities. The article focuses on the idea of collaboration between all IEP team members to help ensure that the student with disabilities receives a meaningful and beneficial education. The IEP team consists of many different people who play a role in the child’s life, often including: the child’s parents, school principal, special education teacher, general education teacher, paraprofessionals, therapists, physicians, and many others. Collaboration among these individuals is vital in the development of an IEP because each member of the team contributes their own opinions,…
Strengths: Madison likes to help others. She enjoys teaching others tasks. Current Grades: Math 72%, Seminar 100%, Human Development 93%, SLA 83%, Botany 82% Team Sports 100%, Teen Issues 92%. Physical Health: No concerns noted by mother.…
Paige Morris would have to make a total of ten IEP’s in which she would need to set up meetings for each kid. In each of the IEP’s she will need to identify the children’s strengths and contain six pieces of writing which must be included in the IEP. The IEP must contain six import parts in it. The first that it needs is the student’s present level of academic achievement and functional performance (PLAAFP).…
I chose the case study of Kimika Kanzia to complete my annual IEP requirement for EDUC-614. Kimika was a 9 year old girl with moderate intellectual disabilities, a seizure disorder and a gross motor impairment. Kimika had been receiving special education in the early childhood special education program since she was three years old due to her education deficits and gross motor impairment. At that time, she was found to have significant language, academic and motor delays. The case study reported that during preschool she made slow but steady progress and over the next few years she was moved to a classroom for students with “trainable mental retardation”.…
In the general education courses I team teach in, I will have to make sure that the appropriate accommodations and assistance devices are being implemented with my students attending the special education courses. With the implementation of these accommodations and devices, my students can have a fair chance to preform on the same level as their classmates despite their disabilities. Additionally, when I start my special education classes, I will have to plan lessons that help the students make progress with their IEP goals and objectives. The grades they recieve from the work assigned in the special education course will be graded using the same grading scale for the…
As Ms. Kaysen has her graduated high school and her previous educational history unknown, it is difficult to determine eligibility. It does not appear her disability impacted her education, as such a 504 plan may be more appropriate. Although Ms. Kaysen has completed high school, an educational assessment may provide information that could be useful in an evaluation for accommodations in a post secondary setting. If a disability category was required, a serious emotional disability (SED) is the most appropriate. Colorado Department of Education Qualification: 1.…
If a student is misidentified and receives special education services, they most likely will remain in special education classes throughout their education. If a child remains in a special education class, they will not receive the education they need to strive and demonstrate their full potential. Additionally, with being in a special education class the student will not receive the chance to encounter meticulous curriculum, which is needed and imperative to the child. Their standards will be lowered when initially, there was no need for these students to have been placed in special education. Consequently, placement of special education can effect post-secondary opportunities.…
Six Tips for Successful IEP Meetings Communication between the school and the parents are vital to the proper educational development of children. Most schools seek to have a partnership between the teacher and parent for all students, but it is even more crucial for children with special needs. The article tells a story of little boy and his struggle in the classroom. It is an example of how the school and parents lack of communication caused the boy’s behavior to get out of hand. The boy was already receiving special education services for speech articulation, however, his IEP did not address all issues.…
A continuum of placements for a student is offered and provided in the least restrictive environment as determined by the IEP team. The types of placements are based on LRE features and application: the students need to have maximum freedom to explore the environment with his physical and intellectual ability, similar age appropriate activities, not harmful, not controlling, students with a disability needs to develop skills necessary to control their world. Most respectful, teacher needs to considerate family wishes. Most normalized exemplar of real life in a society. The placements are general education class, resource class, separate class, separate school, and residential facility.…
Although four different high school completion certificates or diplomas can be obtained by these students, most of these do not do the student any benefit other than documentation that he/she has completed high school. These students have very little options after high school if they are not able to receive one of the two diplomas that allow them to further their education. Special education students have four ways to go about exiting high school; however, each of these prospective plans has various negative aspects. First, the traditional diploma,as displayed in the graph, shows a dwindling twenty-eight percent of special education students who actually leave high school with a diploma. This number is low because of the difficulty explained earlier in the paper.…
This IEP meeting was for a student, whom I will call Laura, for an annual IEP meeting. She is an ELL student, so the meeting started with us waiting for about 45 minutes for the translator. She was late due to another meeting, and the mother spoke no English, so we had to wait patiently. Once everyone was in attendance, we started with introductions. The people in attendance at the meeting were as follows: special education teacher, general education science teacher, mother, interpreter, school psychologist, assistant principle, and myself.…
RTI Process The RTI process of a school begin with high-quality instruction in a general education classroom. When a student needs additional intervention for some studying areas, the school will arrange a test to that student. If the student still fails of the test, the school will do some interventions. The student’ parents need to come to school to discuss with school how to do the interventions to the student.…
Education is important and extremely valued within American society, although students with disabilities have struggled with getting the opportunity to have the same fair, appropriate education as their nondisabled peers. In 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) was enacted and public schools began to provide accommodations for students with disabilities. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) replaced the EHA in 1990, and it was designed to place more focus on the individual’s needs. Disabled students have benefitted greatly from IDEA since it was enacted 26 years ago. IDEA has immensely changed the way students with disabilities receive an education.…
First of all I would like to start my paper with detailed information about schools that I had my observation experiences at. I visited three different classrooms in two different schools. First classroom I visited was at Kiser Dayton Public School, preschool classroom with IEP and special education program. Second school was Horizon Science Academy, where I observed fifth grade and recourse room. Lastly I visited Kiser schools again, and observed Self contained multiple disability classrooms.…
The many challenges the school systems faced was having enough teachers and resources to accommodate the growing number of students admitted into the Special Education system. The ongoing problem that the Special Education department has faced is staffing enough teachers to accommodate a child with a disability. Many schools lack funding or may be in a low income area that is plagued with poverty and this discourages opportunities for teaching positions to be filled. The school systems are overburdened and children are lost through the laws and guidelines that have been put in place (Mason& Williams…