Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Debate

I have a student that I wrote an IEP for and I think I over did it on the goals. I think when I had the meeting I was in the mode of 'saving' the world. The things that I wrote are all very appropriate but now it is finding the time to incorporate all of it into his schedule and have some consistency. I also tend to forget what I need to cover and sinse this one is so extensive I need to make sure that I try to address all the areas. (On my other IEP's most of the goals are things we do weekly so I don't have to know the IEP's by  heart so to say). My debate is that in my history class I have 3 students. I can pair 2 of them together to work on certain things but then I have the other student that I need to work with as well. I started working out of a history book that is at the 9th grade level and he has been apart of this. My struggle is- how much is he getting from this and am I wasting his time when we could be working on more functional things (address, phone number, positional words, months of the year, days of week, etc- all things listed on his IEP). I get excited when I work with him and see his progress and then feel like I am doing him a disservice when I have him join our group as I don't know that it is appropriate. However, I know that I can't give both groups the attention that they need if I keep them seperated. I think I will continue to try to do my best with keeping them together and also seperating them when appropriate. I will try to remain positive that everything will work out for everybody.

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