Teaching Students w/ASD 4.2: Where We Are Now

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Post a 100-word paragraph about your school district’s procedures for the creation, storage, data collection and assessment information for IEPs. If relevant to your role, also include your district’s current guidelines around the use of SMART goals or objectives. 

At my school, the first IEP is created in collaboration with caregivers, specialists, the resources teacher, and teacher working with the student. The resource teacher acts as the team lead, organizes the data (assessments, reports for designation, etc.), and starts to build the IEP after discussing adaptations/modification and core competency goals with the specialists working with the student. The classroom teacher then works with the resource teacher and to come up with curricular competency goals and with the EA to discuss what support will look like in the classroom.  IEPs are stored in student files and on MyEd and are assessed formally twice a year. We don’t use SMART goals in our IEPs. We use the competency-based IEPs you will find in the assignment for this module.

In the video above, Shelly Moore describes the shift from strictly quantitative goals to qualitative and meaningful goals that align with BC's redesigned curriculum. 

Moore, Shelly. (2019, May 6). See ya later s.m.a.r.t. goals! [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OrntS8NrUY