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The parents, students, school staff, representatives of outside agencies and support personnel are all a part of this.
Who are the people important in the development and implementation of a student's IEP?
The person who holds the role of ensuring IEP's are completed within the first 30 days of a student's placement in a special education program.
Who is the Principal?
These are the categories listed for a student's individual requirements in the IEP.
What are: No accommodations or modifications, Accommodated only, Modified and/or Alternative?
These are the people directly responsible for implementing the program and services outlined in a student’s IEP.
Who are the classroom teacher and support personnel?
Buddy/peer tutoring is an example of this.
What is an Instructional Accommodation?
This person is the one who makes decisions related to the program planning sections of an Individual Education Plan.
Who is the person who writes the report card (usually the classroom teacher)?
Communicating openly and regularly with parents and students in clear, plain language.
What is ensuring parental and student involvement in the IEP process?
The special teaching and assessment strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment required to enable a student to learn and to demonstrate learning and do not alter the provincial curriculum.
What are accommodations?
Group instruction, peer coaching, and buddy systems are examples of this.
What are strategies that can help the student participate in many classroom activities?
Assistive devices or adaptive equipment is an example of this.
What is an Environmental Accommodation?
Where applicable, information relating to the IPRC process and the IPRC’s statement of decision, including the date of the most recent IPRC, the student’s exceptionality, and the IPRC’s placement decision is a part of what in the IEP process?
What is an example of the basic information needed for the IEP?
The student has been identified as exceptional by an IPRC or the student has not been formally identified as exceptional but requires an ongoing special education program and/or services, including modified or alternative learning expectations and/or accommodations are to be recorded.
What is the reason for developing the IEP?
The age-appropriate grade-level expectations for a subject or course in order to meet a student’s learning needs which may involve developing expectations that reflect knowledge and skills required in the curriculum for a different grade level and/or increasing or decreasing the number and/or complexity of the grade level curriculum expectations.
What are modifications?
This practice may indicate that the IEP needs to be adjusted.
What is ongoing assessment?
A grade 8 student completing grade 6 math is an example of this.
What is a modification?
When obtaining, releasing, or sharing personal information about a student, the principal must ensure that the requirements of these legal acts have been met.
What is the Education Act and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
According to this regulation, a copy of the IEP is sent to parents and to the student, if the student is 16 years of age or older.
What is Regulation 181/98.
Developed to help students acquire knowledge and skills that are not represented in the Ontario curriculum.
What is alternative expectations?
This requires the IEP box to be checked on a student's report card and a special statement to be used in the comment box.
What is modified expectations?
Extra time for processing is an example of this
What is an assessment accommodation?
The information gathered in the IEP process needs to be consolidated and analysed.
What is to provide a detailed picture of the student’s areas of strength and need, and to identify any consistent patterns of successful learning?
Behaviour, Autism, Deaf and hard-of-hearing, Language impairment, Speech impairment, Learning disability and Giftedness are all examples of this listed in the IEP.
What is the student's exceptionality?
Subjects or courses with modified expectations and alternative programs are methods of classifying programs for students with this exceptionality.
Who are gifted students?
The practice of filing the working copy of the IEP which should replace the filed copy at the end of each school year or semester, or when the student transfers to another school in the OSR helps with this.
What is ensuring the OSR is up to date?
In subjects such as science and technology, social studies, history, geography, and health and physical education, and in most secondary school courses, these are the modifications typically made.
What is changing the number and/or complexity of the regular grade-level expectations?