I am having great difficulties in keeping up with all my paperwork. I have a caseload of twenty eight students that I see from 40-80 minutes a day. Now we have to write a comment on each of their objectives every quarter. I agree with the concept, but some of my students have fifteen or more objectives. Last quarter I spent ten hours outside of school doing my progress reports. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to be more effective with this task. We do our IEPs on the web and our progress notes need to be typed into the program. Some days I feel like I do not have any time left to teach my students.
Michele
Don’t write that many objectives. This is what occurs when there is a disconnect between the legislation and the practice. Legislators who have never practiced the job pass laws that cannot be followed to their full-extent which in turn forces us to identify the best ways we can to teach and comply. Keep objectives to a bare minimum, one for reading, one for math, one for writing. Then any behavior, etc. that are needed. Then, make sure that your benchmarks are measured with work samples and/or tests, materials you use anyway. Otherwise, you will be buried. I used to spend an inordinate amount of time on this, too, even working smart.