I am a Career Technical Teacher that feels lost when it comes to filling out the measurable annual goals sheet, etc. Do I need to relate the goals to why they are learning disabled in the first place or do I need to just come up with some basic goals that are listed in my standards? I read somewhere that there was a lawsuit because the teachers were not addressing the disability in their goals or something like that. Please help or give me the address where I can get more information. Most of the information I read is mainly for the spec. ed teacher or general ed. teacher and I am neither. I teach 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students in a Health Occupations setting. Thanks
Re: Please clarify "measurable goals"
Is there a special sheet for the “short term goals”? The only sheet that I was given to fill out was an annual goals sheet with an area for me to write some dates to check the students progress on a rating scale. Is this all I need, or do I need to also list some short term goals somewhere else? I always feel so lost when it comes to spec. ed. I want to do things right, but I just never know if I am right or not.
Re: Please clarify "measurable goals"
To do things right, you’d have to sit down and figure out just what you had to do to make sure that what you were teaching and how you were teaching it, and what you expected the kid to do and learn, were appropriate for that student and specially designed to deal with his/her individual problems. It sounds like you’ve got a class where they send the LD kids and that placement is somehow suppposed to be enough.
The lawsuits come when the parent asks the team to do things that a kid needs and what they get is the generic IEP it sounds like you have… but ‘way before lawsuit time that parent is going to be asking for a better IEP (if not, they won’t get anywhere at all with the lawsuit) — asking for special teaching or materials that deal wiht the individual student’s disability.
If you’ve got something you do that addresses that individual’s needs (and almost everybody in the class might have the same need if they need things to be easy to read, or hands-on practice, or just more practice or 1-on-1 help), that should definitely be on there.
If you’ve basically got your course outline down there and the goal is the student will pass it, but the kid’s going to have a lot of trouble meeting those goals because he can’t read because of an LD, but you’re not doing anything to address that… then you’re not doing the right thing, but I’m not sure what you could do about it.
Re: Please clarify "measurable goals"
You must have a very generic form there. You should do the short term goals yourself to better help the students meet the annual goal. If the annual goal is to achieve a certain percentage score to pass the class then use that and the “measurable” part would be “as measured by student performance and teacher data recording sheet (grade book).
Re: Please clarify "measurable goals"
Thanks everybody! This information has really been so helpful. Any more tips, just send them. Thanks again!
Yes! You need to fill out all portions of a goal. Criteria, behavior,condition, and evaluation. Example would be, Given information on (whatever you are teaching) Susy will verbally (write, read, etc use whatever fits)demonstrate her knowledge of the information “as measured” bi-monthly using a (standardized test can be used here) teacher made rubric (data recording sheet etc.) Make sure the annual goal is long term and then write short term instrucitonal objectives that address the annual goal in smaller segments. Hope this helps.As far as I know you do not need to put the specific disability into the goal. Just use whatever you use in the classroom to assess students as the “as measured by” portion.