What is an IEP?
A legally binding document mapping a student's education for the year to include services offered beyond those offered to all students in the general education program.
What is an IEP - individualized education program/plan?
Notice given at least once a year notifying parents of their rights.
What is the notice of procedural safeguards?
These are the required members of the IEP team.
Who are the gen ed teacher, intervention specialist, parent and the district representative?
LRE
What is least restrictive environment?
LRE refers to the setting where a child with a disability can receive an appropriate education designed to meet his or her educational needs, alongside peers without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate.
Special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
This is the period of time for which an IEP is written.
What is one year?
Name two typical members of the IEP team.
What are the student, parent/guardian, Gen Ed Teacher, Principal/Administrator, Intervention Specialist?
True or False:
The IEP should list goals and objectives in all areas of the general education curriculum.
What is False: Only in areas the student will need special education services?
True or False
General education teachers can be excused from an IEP meeting if the parent agrees and signs the excusal form during the meeting.
What is False: A general education teacher is a required member of the IEP team, therefore they can not be excused from the meeting. In addition, all excusals must be implemented prior to the IEP meeting starting?
FBA
What is a functional behavior assessment?
A behavior-focused evaluation using a structured process to gather data for a special education IEP. With it, the FBA team collects information on a child’s behavior when that behavior becomes disruptive and negatively impacts their learning. The FBA works to identify the behavior, its cause, and what reinforces it to become a pattern in the classroom. Once the FBA team has enough data on the behavior, they use it to develop interventions that lower the incidence of the behavior and instead encourage more positive and productive ones.
This is the period of time that passes between reevaluations.
What is every three years?
The type of meeting held where the IEP can be changed.
What is an amendment meeting?
This section of the IEP provides baseline data for developing the IEP and writing measurable annual goals. It includes information about the student's instructional and functional levels.
Present Levels of Performance
Name two things the general education teacher should bring to the IEP meeting.
What are:
SDI
What is specially designed instruction?
SDI is defined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as “adapting, as appropriate to the needs of an eligible child under this part, the content, methodology, or delivery of instruction.
SDI is not differentiation (designing for all learners); an accommodation (providing a change in how the student obtains information, such as Braille); or a modification (adjusting the content a student is meant to access). Accommodations and modifications are addressed in their own sections within the IEP.
What is the minimum number invitations a parent should be given to attend a meeting?
What is 3?
The curriculum expert on the IEP team is the
Who is the General Education Teacher?
Allowing a student more time to complete a class assignment is an example of:
Accommodation
Are administered to all students three times per year to proactively and objectively identify which students are potentially in need of educational supports/enhancements to supplement the core curriculum.
What are universal screenings?
IDEA
What is the Individual with Disabilities Education Act?
IDEA is the nation’s special education law. It gives rights and protections to kids with disabilities. It covers them from birth through high school graduation or age 21 (whichever comes first). Parents and legal guardians also have rights under the law.
First, school districts must provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to kids with disabilities. And these kids must learn side by side with peers as much as possible
Second, schools must find and evaluate students who may have disabilities, at no cost to families. This is known as Child Find.
Third, schools have to give parents a voice in their child’s education. At every point in the process, IDEA gives parents specific rights and protections. These are called procedural safeguards.
The number of days to complete a new IEP or amendment after an ETR meeting.
What is 30 days?
Besides, planning a student's education for the year, what are 2 other purposes for the IEP.
What could be Communication, Annual Performance Goals, Services Provided, Evaluation, Management, Accountability, Compliance and Monitoring?
At least two specifics about a service or related service that the student will receive, indicated in the IEP in the area of Specially Designed Services.
What are frequency, location, duration, beginning date, ending date?
When a student with an IEP is not making adequate progress in a general education classroom, this is missing.
What is the proper supports and interventions to facilitate the student’s learning?
FAPE
What is a free and appropriate public education?
Free means the government pays for the education of students with disabilities.
Appropriate means that kids who qualify get an Individualized Education Program (IEP) with services to meet their unique needs. Other students with disabilities may get a 504 plan that gives equal access to learning.
Public means supervised by the public school. An IEP team — teachers, parents, and others — decides what services and support the student gets. In a few cases, the government may pay for kids with disabilities to attend private school.
Education can include special education. It can also include related services, like speech therapy, counseling, or even transportation. The goal is for kids to make progress in school and be prepared for the future.
The number of days to complete an ETR after a parent has provided consent for evaluation.
What is 60 days?