I do not feel clear on what a good present level of educational performance would be on an IEP. I read the components of it in the section of ld indepth, but would just like to read an actual one that has been written by one of you spec. ed. teachers. Please, someone provide me with an idea of how a good one should sound, thanks so much, Rebecca
Example of our present level of performance:
Interesting. I just need to provide a brief statement. They only provide two little lines to write all the information on.
Here is an example of a typical statement written under the present levels of ed. perf.
“Jane is performing below grade level in math, reading comprehension, and writing skills”.
IMO this doesn’t seem to explain present level very accurately.
Or does it. Most of the spec. ed. teachers here write a very similar statement to the one above. I don’t feel it is very good. Thanks
Rebecca
Anitya:
Our IEP isn’t designed like yours. For me it would be easier to have headings and write present levels on each heading, instead of trying to sum everything up into one sentence, which I am finding extrememely hard to do.
Also what does CYA mean???Thanks for answering.
On our IEPs we must make comments about every area subheaded on that page. I keep them short. I try to start with what the child CAN do. This data comes from my assessment and observation, the classroom teacher, district/state tests, parent comments. If the child is in 3rd grade and reading at a 1.2 level but does know letter sounds, then I write :”Joey knows 24/26 letter sounds and he can read about 12 sight words from a high frequency word list. Joey needs to learn how to decode words into sounds and blend them to increase his word recognition skills.” Writing might be,”Joey can write his name and several high frequency words. He attempts to spell unknown words by their initial sounds. He is not able to analyze medial and final sounds in words. He cannot write a complete sentence.” Ours goes on and on, we even have to “discuss” the child’s extracurricular community activities, self-help skills……it has gotten to the point of almost ridiculous to sit at an IEP meeting and ask the parent of an intelligent 8 year old how his “self-help” skills are at home. This is what we get when the advocates and the attorneys stick their nose into our jobs. We get a lot of CYA, pages of it.