Teaching Students w/ASD 5.3: Collaborating with the Ministry Audits

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The provincial government has a compliance program for special education services within schools to ensure students with designations are receiving adequate services and can perform audits. The Special Education Services Category Checklists 2010   is a checklist of required documentation that must be produced in the case of an audit depending on the student's designation. Unfortunately, the list is from 2010 and is no longer up to date with current reporting standards. IEPs have moved away from S.M.A.R.T Goals and are, instead, competency-based goals based around the new curriculum. The competency-based goals are not measurable but teachers, caregivers, and the SBT can show proof of progress in triangulated data. This could be potentially problematic if the provincial government proceeded with an audit based on the Special Education Services Category Checklists 2010 because schools that have moved on to competency-based IEPs will be missing measurable goals in their IEPs and thus unable to fulfill the checklist requirements. I wonder if this will be updated to align with our new BC curriculum and competency-based IEPs. 

BC Ministry of Education. (2010). Special education services category checklists 2010. Retrieved from https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/independent-schools/se_cat_chklst.pdf