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Measurable goals

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Hi! I am having some difficulty in drafting measurable goals for my high school students IEP’s. In the past, our goals were as simple as, “By May 2005, will complete the identified transition objectives,”” while the objectives specified the individual objectives in measurable terms.[i]
We are now required to write the broad transition goal in measurable terms and are not required to make the individual objectives measurable.
(Just when you get used to doing it one way…)
So, can anyone help with this? For example, if I have students who are working on the steps to enter the postsecondary world, how do I wrote a global, *measurable* goal for that? Or, how would study skills be addressed in an annual goal? Or geometry for that matter?
Any help you can provide will be appreciated. I am trying to keep my summer brain in shape.

Thanks!!!!
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Submitted by Janis on Sun, 07/25/2004 - 12:52 PM

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When it comes to subject matter, I just always looked at the curriculum and took major objectives from there. If you don’t have a state curriculum, just take the textbook used and draw from the unit topics. I’d do the same for study skills…look at the curriculum and and take some of the topics for objectives. Then when you test the material, you have a measure of whether they mastered it or not.

Janis

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