With more than seven million students enrolled in special education programs in the U.S., 47 states feeling the effects of a special education teacher shortage, and up to 50 percent of special educator time spent on paperwork—how can schools ensure Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) are high-quality, compliant and actionable for educators working with students with disabilities?
The answer: by providing easy-to-digest professional development for special education teachers and providers.
Equipping your special educators with expert IEP best practice tips helps novice and veteran educators build and implement multi-dimensional IEPs that enable a student to make appropriate progress.
This IEP Checklist, based on advice from special education expert Carol Kosnitsky, outlines best practices and how they help ensure a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) is provided to each student.
Special educators will get a refresher on how to:
- Use multiple sources of data to build a comprehensive IEP
- Focus on student strengths, interests and preferences
- Increase parent participation in the IEP process
- Describe how the student’s disability affects involvement and progress in the general education curriculum
- Write specific statements on academic and functional needs
- Establish baseline data to take a student’s performance temperature