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Do Now: 3 Minutes

Do Now: 3 Minutes. In groups of 3: Draw a K-W-L chart Take 3 minutes to complete the K (know) and W (want to know) sections of your chart. What do you know and want to know about case management and special education law?. For Example:. Case Management and Sped Law. July 20, 2010.

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Do Now: 3 Minutes

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  1. Do Now: 3 Minutes In groups of 3: • Draw a K-W-L chart • Take 3 minutes to complete the K (know) and W (want to know) sections of your chart. What do you know and want to know about case management and special education law? For Example:

  2. Case Management and Sped Law July 20, 2010

  3. Objectives Special educators will be able to: • Describe their role as case managers and how IDEA guides them in this work • Backwards plan a hypothetical caseload • Write IEP goals for two hypothetical students

  4. Norms • Own your own learning and the learning of others • Parking lot questions that aren’t relevant to whole group

  5. Agenda • (5 minutes) Opening • (20 minutes) What is a case manager? • (20 minutes) Backwards planning your caseload • (20 minutes) Writing IEP Goals • (5 minutes) Closing • (10 minutes) Optional Q&A

  6. Agenda • (5 minutes) Opening • (20 minutes) What is a case manager? • (20 minutes) Backwards planning your caseload • (20 minutes) Writing IEP Goals • (5 minutes) Closing • (10 minutes) Optional Q&A

  7. What is a Case Manager? • A case manager is two things: • A dogged advocate for kids, ensuring that students on our caseloads receive the special education services and instruction they need. • Efficient. We manage caseload responsibilities efficiently so that we can spend as much time as possible instructing students. • The case manager’s job is dictated by the Individuals with Disabilities Act or IDEA

  8. A federal law that ensures students with a disability have access to a free, appropriate, public education Defines special education to mean specially designed instruction to meet the needs of a child with a disability Defines what is means to be a child with a disability and what kinds of disabilities there are IDEA: What is it? This is HUGE because until 1975, public schools did not have to admit students with disabilities if they claimed they couldn’t serve them!

  9. A FAPE: Free and Appropriate Public Education An IEP: Individualized Education Program To learn in the LRE: Least Restrictive Environment Related Services as needed A highly qualified teacher Protection from disciplinary action if the behavior resulting in disciplinary action is a manifestation of the disability. Parents are informed of any and all upcoming meetings, assessments, etc. and are invited to participate. IDEA: What It Guarantees Students with Disabilities and Their Families • An IEP includes: • the child’s present levels of performance • • measurable annual goals • • how progress toward goals are to be measured and reported • • special education services, related services, and supplemental aids to be provided • • curricular modifications • • Least Restrictive Environment data • • explanation of time the child will not participate along with non-disabled peers • • accommodations to be provided during standardized assessments • Transition plan for students over 16 By ensuring that students with disabilities learn in the LRE, they spend as much time with their general education peers, and are included in general education classes as much as possible. Related services include things like counseling, speech and language support, occupational therapy, transportation, etc. If a student manifests his disability in a way he can’t totally control, he can’t get in trouble. Yay! • Reasonable effort must be made to involve parents. This usually means: • At least one invite to meeting is sent via certified mail • At least three attempts of contact are made before meeting is held without parent

  10. IDEA: The Placement Process 60 days 30 days

  11. IDEA: The Special Education Process Ongoing Every year Every three years Over the school year

  12. Agenda • (5 minutes) Opening • (20 minutes) What is a case manager? • (20 minutes) Backwards planning your caseload • (20 minutes) Writing IEP Goals • (5 minutes) Closing • (10 minutes) Optional Q&A

  13. Backwards Planning Your Caseload • Just like you backwards plan your lessons, you will backwards plan your caseload. • Backwards planning your caseload: • Increases efficiency • Ensures you hit your deadlines • Let’s try backwards planning a small, hypothetical caseload • I do • We do • You do Take out Handouts A and B

  14. Agenda • (5 minutes) Opening • (20 minutes) What is a case manager? • (20 minutes) Backwards planning your caseload • (20 minutes) Writing IEP Goals • (5 minutes) Closing • (10 minutes) Optional Q&A

  15. Writing IEP Goals • As a case manager, you will write IEP goals for any academic area negatively impacted by the students’ disability (usually math, reading and/or writing) • An IEP goal should be based on standards and target the remedial skills the student must master to access grade-level general education standards. • An IEP goal must include the following components:

  16. Steps to Writing IEP Goals • Assess to identify the most important remedial skills the student must master to access grade-level general education standards. • Determine answers to all goal components • Write goal as a statement.

  17. Steps to Writing IEP Goals, Continued Watch how you may write a reading goal for a student named Malik • Step 1: Assess to identify the most important remedial skills the student must master to access grade-level general education standards. • Malik is a 9th grader who reads on a 5th grade level. • The most recent running records assessment, indicates that Malik reads fluently but struggles with word endings. He also struggles with making inferences on grade level texts. • Step 2: Determine answers to all components for targeted remedial skills • Step 3: Write goal as a statement • By June 1, 2011 Malik will read words endings accurately and fluently and will make accurate references when reading books on a 3rd grade level with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 trials as measured on running records assessments.

  18. Writing IEP Goals, Continued Take out Handout B • Let’s try writing some IEP goals • I do • We do • You do

  19. Agenda • (5 minutes) Opening • (20 minutes) What is a case manager? • (20 minutes) Backwards planning your caseload • (20 minutes) Writing IEP Goals • (5 minutes) Closing • (10 minutes) Optional Q&A

  20. Closing • Objectives Revisited: Special educators will be able to: • Describe their role as case managers and how IDEA guides them in this work • Backwards plan a hypothetical caseload • Write IEP goals for two hypothetical students • What’s Next? • Resources • Regional support • Exit Slip • Optional Q&A now

  21. Agenda • (5 minutes) Opening • (20 minutes) What is a case manager? • (20 minutes) Backwards planning your caseload • (20 minutes) Writing IEP Goals • (5 minutes) Closing • (10 minutes) Optional Q&A

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