Iep Steps Essay

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The GPS-IEP Seven Step Process in Creating Standards-based IEPs Step 1: Consider the Child You must know about the child before you begin to write IEP goals and objectives. This information about the child should include the following: interests, learning styles, strengths, needs, immediate future plans, long-range educational outcomes or goals, parents’ concerns, relevant medical information, safety information, and background information. Step 2: Examine classroom data to decide where the child is functioning in relation to the standards and grade-level benchmarks and indicators. You must know the academic content standards, benchmarks, and grade-level indicators for what is expected of a child in their particular grade. Next, review any data on the child from classroom-based assessments and recent state and district-wide assessments to determine where the child is functioning in relation to those standards, benchmarks, and grade-level indicators. This may be formal or informal data. Also, review the child’s most recent ETR and their progress or lack of progress on the IEP being replaced. Finally, it is important to decide how the child’s characteristics of their disability affect their progress in the general education curriculum. Step 3: Develop the Present Level of Performance (PLOP) for academic achievement and functional performance. Using the information determined in Step 2, write their functioning levels, PLOP, in relation to the standards. This information will be the baseline used to write the measurable annual goals which follow. Do not include the child’s disability label in the PLOP. Be sure to include information from the parents along with information provided by school staff. Step 4: Develop Measurable Annual Goals along with their supporting benchmarks or objectives. IEP goals are the roadmap that brings
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