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High Stakes Testing to Interventions

Helping Your Students Understand Their Classmates with Special Needs

  • A good overview on sensitivity training: The primary objective of this unit is to sensitize both students and teachers to special education students and teir needs and their rights. Many regular education students and teachers have had limited contact with special education students. They have very little understanding of the various handicaps of children with special needs.

Helping Students Develop Their IEPs – Click Here

High Stakes Testing

  • High-Stakes Testing, Uncertainty, and Student Learning: This article provides a brief history of high-stakes testing and an analysis of eighteen states with severe consequences attached to their testing programs. These 18 states were examined to see if their high-stakes testing programs were affecting student learning, the intended outcome of high-stakes testing policies promoted throughout the nation.

  • Pass the test or no diploma-High stakes graduation testing and children with learning disabilities: This article provides an explanation as to why there are high stakes tests, what sort of tests they are, legal authority for including children with disabilities in exit exam interviews, why there is backlash etc.

  • High Stakes Testing: This site offers news and articles about high stakes testing by people who are for and against it so that you can get a feel for the positives and negatives of it.

Home Bound Instruction

Home Schooling

Homework Strategies for Children with Disabilities

  • 5 homework strategies for working with children with disabilities: Homework is one aspect of the general education curriculum that has been widely recognized as important to academic success. Teachers have long used homework to provide additional learning time, strengthen study and organizational skills, and in some respects, keep parents informed of their children’s progress.

IDEA Amendments of 1997/2004 – Click Here

IDEA-Part C-Early Childhood Intervention

Impartial Hearings

Inclusion

Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)

  • Understanding the Standards-based IEP – Many states and local school districts are embracing a new approach to developing Individualized Education Programs  (IEPs) for students receiving special education. This  approach—most often referred to as “standards-based IEPs”— is driven by changes to both the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the current Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)—known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Understanding this standards-based approach to IEP development and how it can benefit students with LD- PDF File from NCLD.
  • NASET Master Curriculum –  FREE TO NASET MEMBERS – This product is an excellent tool for creating IEPs and curricula. It consists of the following components:
    • 16 Subject Areas
    • 105 Goal Areas under the Subject Areas
    • 4,830 Objectives under the Goal Areas
    • 2,719 Suggested Activities for achieving the objectives.

  • Individualized Education Programs: An excellent and thorough overview for teachers and parents.

  • This article addresses the seven habits of highly effective IEP teams: It is essential for members of IEP teams to be proactive in collaborate efforts to help children with have individual educational plans.

  • The IEP Process: This site defines IEP, provides the timelines for developing an IEP, composition of the IEP Committee, IEP meeting notification, revising the IEP components, and the IEP components.

  • Individual Educational Programs: This site gives you information about IEPs such as who needs them, the referral and evaluation process, development of an IEP, and legal rights of parents and children.

  • Health and the IEP CD-ROM: The Wisconsin Community on Transition Health Practice Group has developed health-related training materials that can be used with schools, health providers, families, and directly with youth to help youth with disabilities learn to more effectively manage their health care concerns.
  • Health and Transition in the IEP Video: “Embedding Health Outcomes in the Individualized Education Program” is a video recording of a 40 minute teleconference that provides information and specific examples of health-related goals for an IEP. This free recording is available from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Web site.

IEP Goals

  • NASET Master Curriculum –  FREE TO NASET MEMBERS – This is an excellent tool for creating IEPs and curricula. It consists of the following components:
    • 16 Subject Areas
    • 105 Goal Areas under the Subject Areas
    • 4,830 Objectives under the Goal Areas
    • 2,719 Suggested Activities for achieving the objectives.
  • Writing good IEP goals: This area contains a series of articles that answer many questions about writing IEPs, including goals and objectives.

  • Making IEP Goals measurable: These examples are from the  handbook “A Guide for Understanding and Developing IEPs”.

  • Writing IEP Goals: A very well organized site that takes you through every step of writing an IEP including annual goals, writing measurable goals and objectives, present levels of educational performance checklists

  • Basic IEP: a good site that explains the language of IEPs including measurable goals, number of goals, and numerous samples to help you understand how they are written.

  • Sample IEP for child with autism: a sample IEP outlining goals and objectives for a child with PDD.

  • IEP goals/benchmarks: The goals and objectives or benchmarks are the core of the IEP. This site explains these areas and their importance for parents and teachers.

  • Objectives for behavior plans:If you are writing a plan to ensure that your behavior student will be successful, you will want to make sure that your goals are based on the student’s past performance and that they are stated positively.

  • Everything you need to write an IEP: The Individual Education Plan (IEP) is every exceptional or identified student’s lifeline for academic success. If students with special needs are to achieve the academic curriculum to the best of their ability and as independently as possible, the professionals involved in the delivery of their programming must have a plan in place.

  • Developing IEP goals: a good step by step description with some useful tools to determine appropriate goals.

  • Annuals goals, short-term instructional objectives and benchmarks: a good step by step outline that explains in easy terms the basics behind writing annual goals.

  • An IEP goal bank: thousands of goals that can be used to design IEP goals and objectives in 12 different areas including functional academics, independent living, motor, recreation and leisure, daily living skills, social emotional and much more.Easy to use.

  • Motor goals behaviors and objectives: this site offers numerous goals in these areas for infants through 12 years of age.

  • The dreaded IEP behavioral objective: This page is to give you extra information and practice, in case you are having difficulties writing them for your lesson plans.

  • Writing better IEP goals, short-term objectives or benchmarks (PDF file):This article provides strategies for writing precise goals and short-term objectives or benchmarks.

Individualized Family Service Plan-IFSP

Intellectual Disability – Click Here

Intelligence Tests-Individual – Click Here

Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities

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