Reflections I chose to do my IEP on my character, Jane, from my last assignment and used a lot of her strength-based learning profile in creating the IEP. When considering goals for Jane, it seemed very obvious that many of her goals would be personal/social goals and communication goals -which is primarily due to some of the challenges students with autism have in those areas. The core competency goals I chose to focus on were based around the “behaviour” for her intervention for assignment 3.5 with the desired behavior calming down and asking for help -both were personal and social goals in the facets of self-determination and self-regulation. If I had more room, I would have done a social responsibility and/or communication goal. I noticed the curricular competencies were a lot more challenging to do and, in my opinion, less imperative too. I think the biggest focuses should really be in core competencies with Jane but chose English Language Arts curricular competency goals because Jane is ELL and has deficits in expressive language, so these goals are meaningful to her communication development and could help her express herself and make connections with peers. I learned that students do not need to have both core and curricular competency goals -these are decided on case-by-case. As for content requirements, I looked and thought some could be useful, like oral strategies for communication and practicing expression when asking a question, but there are some that just add an extra layer of difficulty to things that my fictitious student is struggling with. |
Below you will find resources used explored for IEP writing and a sample competency-based IEP with both core and curricular competency goals.
Links that I found useful for this included:
VSB i3 Core Competency resources have self-assessment tools, editable posters, and a document with core competency "I can" statements in child-friendly language. The "I can" statements can be used to help develop core competency goals for IEPs and can be used in the classroom.
https://blogsomemoore.com/individual-education-plans/ Blogsomemoore is Shelly Moore's blog on inclusive education and practices. It has plenty of templates, tools, and samples for IEP writing.
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| Image courtesy of Shelly Moore |
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| Image courtesy of the BC curriculum's site. |
The Big Ideas are the overarching understandings and the Learning Standards are the "do." See the Curriculum overview for more details. Understanding the curriculum will be helpful in the creation of curricular competency-based goals.
Teaching Students with Autism: A Resource Guide for Schools is a guide with all sorts of useful information from details about common challenges of students with ASD to strategies to templates available for use to document likes and dislikes.
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