I have a communication tool with the LD teacher that takes her about 2 minutes to complete each time my son sees her and is for the following purposes:
1. Show what my son worked on for the day
2. Give homework pages for each day
3. Communication tool for the tutor that I am paying for to let her know where he is in school
This is so we can reinforce items at home and so that on a daily basis he is reviewing information. He has a problem with recall so this helps him and has worked great, he made a years progress in 6 months.
The school district does not want this communication. I have the IEP meeting on Monday. If they won’t let me have this communication tool I am going to ask for weekly phone calls or meetings with the teacher.
Any ideas
??? Communication Tool
“Communication Tool” is pretty vague.
Are you talking about a device of some sort? Or just a phone call / e-mail / note sent home?
Somehow you need to keep these things VERY EASY. Sounds easy, I know, but I HATE to stop teaching my group 2 minutes or more before the end of class to do this. I don’t give resource homework. I DO send work home (a 1-2 day lag because I grade, check w/child and give to classroom teacher so she can see). Can you reduce some of this to weekly communication? I generally run a weekly lesson plan and can send home WEEKLY info. re. skill(s) being covered that WEEK. If the tutor is worth her salt, this should be plenty for her. Why not have the teacher and the tutor talk from time to time. Other items, she can send home flash cards if you want to work on sight vocabulary that is deficient (I may type a list of “x” words and ask the parents to review 5 per night, and so on, ditto for spelling, send list of words the child NEEDS to know how to spell and ask family for 2-5 min. per night, study 2 words at a crack). There are ways to keep things simple and still accomplish your child’s goals, but they have to be really simple and very untime consuming, at least with respect to commandeering teaching time.
Push for weekly and get it into IEP.