Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance.
What is the PLAAPF meaning?
100
An informal written record (usually in a positive tone), based on the observations of the teacher, of a student's progress and/or activities which occur throughout the day.
What is an anecdotal record?
100
This clearly articulates what the student currently knows and can do in relationship to his/her involvement and progress in the curriculum.
What is academic and functional performance areas?
100
Student strengths should be determined from this.
What are multiple sources of data?
100
This is what the student needs know and/or do in order to be more independent in the classroom that rises to the level of requiring specially designed instruction.
What is "authentic identified need."
200
It describes what the child with a disability knows and is able to do.
What is the purpose (or reason) for the PLAAPF?
200
A test administered and scored in a consistent manner: designed such that "questions, conditions for administering, scoring and interpretations are consistent, predetermined, and in a standard manner. (Usually compare student to his/her peers.)
What is standardized assessment?
200
May include relatively strong area for a student; motivational or interest area. Can support instructional decisions related to motivation, learning styles, and learning preferences.
What is strengths?
200
Student strengths should be included here.
What is in each performance area?
200
This is defined as "specially designed instruction" at no cost to parents, to meet the unique needs of a child.
What is "Special Education."
300
Standardized assessments, benchmark assessments, district assessments, work samples, behavioral data, video tape, anecdotal records, narrative records, teacher made tests, to name a few.
What is data for the PLAAPF?
300
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured. Typically, they are established several times during a school year and are used to determine progress or the lack of progress in a given skill.
What is a benchmark assessment?
300
These have a marked impact on the child's educational performance and requires specially designed instruction and has a corresponding annual goal.
What is concerns?
300
The strengths should be one consideration when designing this.
What is specially designed instruction?
300
This describes how the students disability(ies) affects the student's involvement and progress in the general education curriculum.
What is clearly defined adverse affect?
400
The tools we use to help students with disability master goals and objectives.
What is specially designed instruction?
400
Records written in "story" to provide a more or less fatihful reproduction of behavior or observations as it originally occured.
What is narrative records?
400
This describes how the student's disability (ies) specifically impact his/her involvement and progress in the curriculum.
What is impact?
400
Strengths are a ___________________component of the PLAAPF page. Therefore, this section MUST completed.
What is mandatory or required?
400
This identifies the specific aspect of the disability, explains the impact on progress or participation in general education, and describes what is requried to ensure studernt participation in the general education curriculum.
What is impact statement?
500
This describes how the student's disability(ies) affects the student's involvement and progress in the general education curriculum.
What is the impact statement?
500
These are used to assess time on task, number of occurances of behavior, duration of behavior and reinforcement schedules.
What is behavioral data?
500
These are two critical components when determining student need.
What is parent and student input?
500
Multiple means of assessment allow us to gather this to determine student strengths.