Please respond to a High School student who has not passed many Algebra I tests due to multi-steps, careless errors while testing. Student is trying very hard, being tutored, appears to understand the material but is in a regular class with two teachers. Students avg. is 76 due to homework grades. What do I need to do to help this student and what goals, modif. or accom. need to be included in his IEP? Thank you for all your help!
Re: IEP goals, modification, accomidations
THose accommodations are good - *do* make sure that understanding is there.
I got straight C’s in Math in high school — also because of homework and I suspect some creative grading. I usually got 60’s & 70’s on tests — but if the test grades are really abysmal and the errors aren’t ‘careless,’ then the understadning may not be there. (I managed 700’s on the SATs & GREs which I think speaks volumes for the quality instruction I got.)
Re: IEP goals, modification, accomidations
Sue,
I agree with you and I am conserned about the creative grading issue too! Thanks for your reply! If you have any other thoughts please send me your message to williboy @msn .com
I can identify with this student’s problems. Since I am an LD teacher and also have a LD in sequential memory which contributed to my failing math twice in highschool, I feel qualified to offer the following advice.
1. Testing most likely causes the student additional stress as he knows that he does not do well on tests. Thus, he will have the potential to freeze and not be able to perform as well as he should. The modifications offered to the student should be tailored to his specific weaknessess. If he has weaknessess in short term, long term, or sequential memory these suggestions based on my experiences should elicit test taking success:
Allow student to use a cue card strategy containing necessary steps and/or formulas. Allow student to use a calculator to reduce “careless mistakes”. Give student partial credit for using the correct process, even if the answer was incorrect. Allow student to make corrections on the test to bring up his test score average.
I was able to get A’s in college by the use of a calculator and a cue card. These are not crutches any more than glasses are to the visually impaired, but neccesary aids for the sequentially memory impaired.R Willis wrote:
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> Please respond to a High School student who has not passed
> many Algebra I tests due to multi-steps, careless errors
> while testing. Student is trying very hard, being tutored,
> appears to understand the material but is in a regular class
> with two teachers. Students avg. is 76 due to homework
> grades. What do I need to do to help this student and what
> goals, modif. or accom. need to be included in his IEP?
> Thank you for all your help!