Understanding Your IEP
Areas of Strength & Need
Goal Setting
Five Point Scale
Feelings & Strategies
100
What does "IEP" stand for?
What is Individualized Education Plan or Program.
100
Prepared for class, listens, stay on task, ask for help, complete homework, write homework in Assignment Notebook, studies for exams and quizzes, edit's writing assignments, allows for time to complete projects.
What are academic strengths?
100
This is a goal that can be achieved in a day.
What is a daily goal?
100
This level of the five point voice scale is when you are shouting about an emergency.
What is level 5.
100
A method of communicating how you feel towards others, that helps to convey the message in a positive manner.
What is an "I message".
200
Examples of this include: aide access, guided notes, clarify directions, special seating arrangements, refocusing and redirection.
What are modifications.
200
Talking during class, interrupting the teacher, arguing with classmates and peers, yelling in class, breaking a pencil in anger, test anxiety, school anxiety are examples of this.
What are behavioral needs?
200
What is a weekly goal, and give an example?
Answers vary (Example: Write down, complete, hand in homework 4 out of 5 days in a week.)
200
What is level 2 on the five point voice scale?
Quiet talk in the classroom.
200
Describe how nervousness looks and feels.
Pulling hair, heart beating faster, tapping foot, sweaty palms.
300
Examples of this include: flexible schedule/timing, flexible setting, provide breaks, read aloud, directions read.
What are testing accommodations.
300
Greeting others, using humor appropriately, having manners, using tactfulness, having etiquette, writing thank you notes, bringing a gift to a friend's party.
What are social strengths.
300
What is a quarterly goal, give an example?
Achieved in 10 weeks or a quarter. (Example: Achieve an 85 average or higher in all four core (ELA, Math, Science, SS) subjects.)
300
This level of the five point voice scale is when you are outside with your friends.
What is level 4.
300
This is a feeling of when you feel like smiling, laughing, or overall pleasure.
What is happiness.
400
These are to be achieved quarterly, and sometimes over the summer. These are specific to each student, and focus on areas of need for each individual student.
What IEP goals.
400
What are some examples of academic needs: (name 3)
More organized, being able to stay on task, writing notes during class, asking for help in class, listening, working with others, completing homework, study for exams.
400
This is a goal that you can accomplish during the course of a year. An example is to achieve a 90 average for the year, or pass 7th grade and move on to 8th grade.
What is a yearly goal.
400
What is level 5 on the five point behavior scale?
Out of control, physically aggressive behavior (punching, hitting, kicking)
400
This is a feeling in which you are perplexed, uncertain, and do not know what to do.
What is confusion?
500
Describe what an IEP accomplishes?
1. How the student learns 2. How the student best demonstrates that learning. 3. What teachers and service providers will do to help the student learn more effectively.
500
What are some examples of social needs:
What are accepting "no" for an answer, accepting criticism or a consequence, making an apology, disagreeing appropriately, having a conversation.
500
What is a life goal, and give 3 examples?
A goal you achieve in your lifetime. Learn a language, buy a home, play a musical instrument, get married, start a family, start a career, travel the world
500
What is a level 3 on the five point behavior scale?
What is quiet, but sometimes rude talk.
500
Describe the feeling of anger.
Inner turmoil, blood is boiling, fight or flight, feel like yelling, screaming, or hitting something. Facial expression: scowl.