Parents as Partners in the IEP Process
Here is a link from the Utah Parent Center, The link is the Parents as Partners in the IEP Process.
This handboook is a really helpful resource in understanding the IEP process. It gives you an in depth look into the IEP processes both a parent and or teacher. It tells you what to expect when you start working on student IEP's, and the guidelines that must be met in the IEP. I will use this as a teacher as well as recommend to parents who have children in special ed.
Posted September 25, 2012 at 8:28
Council for Exceptional Children
Here is a link to to the Council for Exceptional Children:
Under the Support for Teachers tab on the left menu I found three articles that I found rather interesting.
CEC Releases New Standards for Advanced Roles in Special Education
The article discusses the new standards that the CEC are using to outline what special education teachers need to know if they want to seek an advanced degree or certification, administration, and higher education.
I found this article to be very informative because, I believe that as a teacher I want to be the best that I can be. This article helps with this need. I found it very interesting and beneficial to not only special educators but to all teachers.
Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork
by, Lynne Cook and K. Sarah Hall
As a teacher we must become accustomed to paperwork. This is particularly important to special education teachers. In this article Cook & Hall discuss strategies that can make paperwork less taxing. This article is very helpful because it gives several strategies to help with paperwork. I will use these strategies to help with paperwork. I really like the strategy of time-saving that Cook & Hall suggest, they say to create progress charts and maintain portfolios so you can monitor student progress. I also like the idea of involving the student in the IEP process. Including the student in the IEP process gives the student a chance to monitor themselves. I love this idea.
Supervising Paraeducators- What Every Teacher Should Know
by, Nancy French
For three years I worked as a paraprofessional. I found this article interesting because it is gives four ways to monitor paraprofessionals. They are Actively Involve Paraprofessionals, Conduct First- Hand Observations, Focus Observations on Tasks Assigned to the Paraprofessional, and Use Written Data to Provide Feedback. As a special education teacher I will be working with paraprofessionals. It is important that they understand what is required of them and to make sure they are doing what you as the teacher wants them to do. I have been fortunate that I had really good relationships with the teachers who I worked with, they were open with me and gave me feedback on what I could do differently. Because paraprofessionals are not licensed teachers it is important to have an open relationship with them. I will use these suggestions when I work with paraprofessionals and hopefully I will have an open relationship with the paraprofessionals I work with.
Posted October 2, 2012 at 9:44 am
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