Interventions, Indicators, and the IEP Process

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Interventions, Indicators, and the IEP Process

• Peers Group
• Paulding Elementary School
• April 25, 2006

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Team Members

• Debra Paputsakis, facilitator
• Kelly Spangler
• Stacey Diefenthaler
• Emily Miller
• Pat Stevenson
• Tracy Gunderman

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Project Description

• To acquaint new special education teachers with
  the IEP process
• To review the IEP Inter-Rater Agreement training
  manual
• To develop a bank of goals and objectives for the
  IEP
• To discuss strengths and weaknesses for our
  students
• To discuss interventions used in helping our
  students reach their goals
• To plan for the next school year

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Debra Paputsakis, Facilitator

• Shown is Deb looking over the IEP Inter-Rater
  training tool. A lot of our Peers time was spent
  discussing this.

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Pat Stevenson, Autism Teacher

• Pat is shown here looking at www.interventioncentr
  al.org We found different probes at this site
  that we used as assessment probes in writing our
  IEPs.

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Stacey Diefenthaler and Kelly Spangler, 4th and
5th grade Special Education Teachers

• Stacey and Kelley are looking at goals and
  objectives from a school in Redmond, Oregon. They
  are getting some new ideas in developing their
  own bank of goals and objectives for writing the
  IEP. We looked at several different examples of
  databanks during our Peers group.

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Tracy Gunderman, Speech Pathologist, and Emily
Miller, Multi-Handicapped Teacher

• Tracy and Emily are shown here discussing some of
  the strengths and weaknesses of the students.
  They are then going to search for intervention
  ideas on the computer.

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Tillman Karl, Special Education Coordinator

• Our peers group culminated in a meeting with
  Tillman Karl. We spent two hours with him
  discussing concerns regarding the entire IEP
  process. We felt the group was very beneficial
  for us in developing our IEPs.