Hello! I am going to be presenting an inservice on how to monitor progress on IEP goals. I have some strategies to present, but I have to fill 80 minutes, so I thought I’d see if anyone has some good ideas to share :?:
An example of an idea that one of my friends uses is to write each of her students’ IEP goals on an index card, and to use checkmarks daily to monitor their progress. I’ve tried that, but haven’t had much success. Any other ideas?
Thank you :D
Re: Monitoring IEP Progress
In order to adequately evaluate my quarterly reports, I have my students rate their goals with a 1,2,or 3 every week (we don this on Friday). Each of their goals is typed up on a half sheet(or more depending on the student), and the students rate their performance for the week. One is the best score, two means they are working on the skill, but haven’t yet mastered it, and three means they aren’t doing the skill at all. I then go through and rate each of their goals too, so I have some sort of comparison. This helps me greatly when doing the quarterly reports. Additionally, the special ed. teachers in our corportation have developed a tracking device for the state standards that will follow the students throughout their educational career. Basically, we sign off when a standard has been introduced, and when it has been mastered.
‘Hope this helps,
Kelti
Re: Monitoring IEP Progress
The most important thing to do is to write goals that are easily measured. E.g. I used Read Naturally in my elementary resource room. So, I wrote a goal for fluency and comprehension that I could measure with the Read Naturally materials students used regularly. I gave certain types of quizzes weekly, like word or sentence dictation. There is another goal tha is measured with what you do and grade regularly anyway. Give daily/weekly math quizzes of 5-10 problems and use the percentage scores to measure IEP goals. Avoid data banks of IEP goals, write your own and plug them into the standards, believe me, they will plug. The hardest are the behavioral goals, these need charting. Save work samples. So, you could take some curriculum materials you like and show how you identify where a child is in the curriculum scope and sequence and how you use what is built into the curriculum to track progress.
If you use Project Read with beginning readers, anticipate how far you will go in a year, that is your annual goal. Then break the year into 3-4 segments, those become benchmarks. If you use their words for dictation, there is a measure. If you have students read the supplemental stories, there is another. Have child read “story” to you while you record reading miscues and derive a percentage score for accuracy, even time can be factored in.
If you use any published materials for teaching written language, do the same thing. Be sure to save some work samples so you can show while you tell at conferences and at IEP meetings.
Would you be willing to share some of your ideas? I’ll try to think of something to share with you, but I struggle with monitoring also.