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Describes the student’s current academic, behavioral, and functional skills
What is the PLAAFP? Present Levels of Performance (PLAAFP)
Yearly targets based on student needs.
What are Annual Goals?
Allows access to curriculum without changing content.
What is an accommodation?
Includes OT, speech, and counseling.
What are related services?
A plan for students with behavior challenges.
What is a BIP?
Refers to time spent in gen ed vs. special ed.
What is placement or LRE?
Explains why a student needs extra adult support.
What is the paraprofessional justification?
Alex struggles with comprehension and needs help with directions
What type of information belongs in the PLAAFP?
By June 2025, Kevin will independently write a 3-paragraph essay that includes a clear topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence, scoring at least 3 out of 4 on a teacher-created writing rubric in 4 out of 5 opportunities.
What is an example of an Annual Goal?
Alters the complexity of the material.
What is a modification?
45 minutes of daily math support from a special ed teacher in the general education classroom
What is inclusion?
Amir earns stickers for good transitions.
What is a reinforcement strategy?
Sam gets 120 minutes of push-in support weekly.
What are service minutes?
Jayla needs help with safety, regulation, and transitions.
What are reasons for paraprofessional support?
Explains how a disability affects access to the general curriculum.
What is the purpose of the PLAAFP?
Must be observable and measurable with a clear mastery criterion.
What is a well-written SMARTE goal?
Extended time and breaks during testing.
What are examples of accommodations?
Individual conducts Intelligence, academic ,adaptive scales, behavior scales and executive functioning assessments
Who is the school pyschologist?
Angel takes a 5-minute break in the calm corner (as outlined in their BIP) for disrupting the class.
What is a consequence?
80% in general education classroom, 20% in resource room.
What is an example of LRE?
Support should promote this, not dependency
What is student independence?
Jada can write complete sentences but struggles with organization
What is a current academic need in the PLAAFP?
Helps track goal progress.
What are quarterly benchmark?
Ensure equity in testing, not advantage.
What are testing accommodations?
Specifies frequency, duration, and provider of support.
What are service delivery details?
Explains how progress will be tracked and updated
What is the monitoring section of the BIP?
Most restrictive option considered last.
What is a separate/self-contained setting with a paraprofessional?
Must consider these before assigning para support.
What are less restrictive supports?
This portion of the IEP explains support the student will need to move through out school setting.
What is relevant transitions?
Student are monitored quarterly with this tool.
What is an IEP report card
The learning target is altered, not just how the student accesses the material.
What is a modification?
Student receives full reading, math, science and social science in a separate setting with a special education teacher.
What is self contained?
Needed to understand behavior before writing a BIP.
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)?
Student in this setting require significantly modified curriculum.
What is a cluster setting?
Documentation that paraprofessional are expected to collect.
What is data (behavioral and academic)?