Progress Monitoring

30 10, 2017

Student Progress Monitoring: What This Means for Your Child

Zach Hidalgo2017-10-30T16:45:56-05:00

Progress monitoring can give you and your child’s teacher information that can help your child learn more and learn faster, and help you make better decisions about the type of instruction that will work best with your child. Our children’s progress is being monitored constantly at school, through the steady stream of homework assignments, quizzes, tests, projects, and standardized tests. On first hearing the term “student progress monitoring,” our initial reaction may be “they’re doing this already!” or “more tests?” But do you really know how much your child is learning or progressing? Standardized tests compare your child’s performance with other [...]

Student Progress Monitoring: What This Means for Your ChildZach Hidalgo2017-10-30T16:45:56-05:00

10 10, 2017

Is My Child Making Progress Towards IEP Goals?

Zach Hidalgo2019-07-02T15:29:28-05:00

By the time “Mrs. Bailey” contacted a professional to evaluate her son, she had been receiving quarterly progress reports from his public school for five years, telling her that Kevin was making progress toward achieving the academic goals listed in his Individualized Education Program (IEP). However, her observations of Kevin’s homework and the graded school work that came home didn’t match the school’s evaluation, and she wanted a psychologist to provide a “second opinion.” The outside evaluation confirmed his mother’s concerns — he had deficits in math calculation and written expression skills. In fact, Kevin’s written expression skills were severely delayed [...]

Is My Child Making Progress Towards IEP Goals?Zach Hidalgo2019-07-02T15:29:28-05:00

4 10, 2017

Writing IEP Goals

kristina@partnerstx.org2019-10-03T14:35:16-05:00

Creating an IEP with a team of people who are all there to design a good educational program for one unique child can be a pleasure. It can also be very productive. When the whole team has the same level of understanding about IEPs, it is even better. Sounds like crazy talk? Just ask those who have seen it happen. The big winner here is the child. A Lesson in Writing IEP Goals An IEP is good educational programming. Good IEPs set the standard for good education. Each part of the IEP addresses an important part of educational planning. The IEP [...]

Writing IEP Goalskristina@partnerstx.org2019-10-03T14:35:16-05:00

27 01, 2017

Student Progress Monitoring: What This Means for Your Child

kristina@partnerstx.org2017-06-30T15:46:16-05:00

Progress monitoring can give you and your child’s teacher information that can help your child learn more and learn faster, and help you make better decisions about the type of instruction that will work best with your child. Our children’s progress is being monitored constantly at school, through the steady stream of homework assignments, quizzes, tests, projects, and standardized tests. On first hearing the term “student progress monitoring,” our initial reaction may be “they’re doing this already!” or “more tests?”. But do you really know how much your child is learning or progressing? Standardized tests compare your child’s performance with other [...]

Student Progress Monitoring: What This Means for Your Childkristina@partnerstx.org2017-06-30T15:46:16-05:00

25 01, 2017

Monitoring Progress: Questions Parents Should Ask & Discuss

kristina@partnerstx.org2017-06-30T15:35:27-05:00

Keeping up on a student’s progress towards meeting their IEP goals can save valuable time. Be sure that you know how each goal will be monitored and when instructional changes should be made. Regarding Strengths & Weaknesses ASK: What do you see as my child’s strengths, weaknesses– academically, behaviorally, and socially? DISCUSS: Your own thoughts about their strengths, weaknesses, interests, what motivates your child, what behaviors you see at home, and how your child feels about him/herself as a learner. […]

Monitoring Progress: Questions Parents Should Ask & Discusskristina@partnerstx.org2017-06-30T15:35:27-05:00

23 01, 2017

How Does Mastery of Annual Goals Relate to Grading and Promotion?

kristina@partnerstx.org2017-06-30T15:48:04-05:00

TEC §28.0216 requires that school district grading policies: “(1) must require a classroom teacher to assign a grade that reflects the students’ relative mastery of an assignment; [and] (2) may not require a classroom teacher to assign a minimum grade for an assignment without regard to the student’s quality of work.” These rules apply to classroom assignments, examinations, and overall grades for each grading period. Because of this, teachers may not assign a grade based on effort, and schools cannot pass a student who has not mastered the curriculum. Since goals can be either academic or functional in nature, they either [...]

How Does Mastery of Annual Goals Relate to Grading and Promotion?kristina@partnerstx.org2017-06-30T15:48:04-05:00

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