Special Education in High School

[Anonymous]

DD is a rising 9th grader. She has an IEP under other health impairment for ADHD and anxiety. She has 3 goals for executive functioning, 1 goal for study habits (turning assignments on time, etc.), and 1 goal for math. All the teachers listed on her schedule are special education teachers. Big meltdown today about this, "none of my friends are SPED". In middle school, most students with an IEP were placed on team that was primarily special education students. She/we were told this would not be the case for high school. No behavioral issues in school although we did have some days of school refusal due to anxiety. With the type of IEP goals, I don't see why she could not receive supports for those executive functioning deficits in general education classes. Can I request an IEP meeting before school starts?

[Anonymous]

What type of classes did you put in her IEP for placement last year? Gen Ed, team taught, self contained?

There are no teams in high school. Your child gets teachers based on the courses they registered for. If team taught or self contained, that is why they are sped teachers. If you intended her to be in gen Ed, there is a mistake and you need to reach out to the counselor to get a class change (and I would CC her case manager on the email).

Not all classes are sped though, right? PE, electives won’t be, unless strats is an elective. Home room/advisory will be because (at my school at least) all IEP students are assigned their case manager for advisory for extra support.

How did she get her schedule so early? As a teacher I can’t even see my rosters yet.

[Anonymous]

It's possible that she's in team-taught classes and she's just on the SpEd teacher's roster.

Also, schedules aren't finalized yet and won't be until next week.

[Anonymous]

How many hours of specialized instruction does she have? Are they listed as inside or outside general education? If she has minimal hours outside general education, she should not be in designated special ed classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's possible that she's in team-taught classes and she's just on the SpEd teacher's roster.

Also, schedules aren't finalized yet and won't be until next week.

FCPS had an IT glitch yesterday and released the teachers names onto TalkingPoints. They are trying to fix it because it’s not finalized but essentially it’s finalized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What type of classes did you put in her IEP for placement last year? Gen Ed, team taught, self contained?

There are no teams in high school. Your child gets teachers based on the courses they registered for. If team taught or self contained, that is why they are sped teachers. If you intended her to be in gen Ed, there is a mistake and you need to reach out to the counselor to get a class change (and I would CC her case manager on the email).

Not all classes are sped though, right? PE, electives won’t be, unless strats is an elective. Home room/advisory will be because (at my school at least) all IEP students are assigned their case manager for advisory for extra support.

How did she get her schedule so early? As a teacher I can’t even see my rosters yet.

I'm confused. Do FCPS high schools have team taught classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What type of classes did you put in her IEP for placement last year? Gen Ed, team taught, self contained?

There are no teams in high school. Your child gets teachers based on the courses they registered for. If team taught or self contained, that is why they are sped teachers. If you intended her to be in gen Ed, there is a mistake and you need to reach out to the counselor to get a class change (and I would CC her case manager on the email).

Not all classes are sped though, right? PE, electives won’t be, unless strats is an elective. Home room/advisory will be because (at my school at least) all IEP students are assigned their case manager for advisory for extra support.

How did she get her schedule so early? As a teacher I can’t even see my rosters yet.

I'm confused. Do FCPS high schools have team taught classes?

They did when my DS was in high school--a few years ago. He was in a team taught freshman science class. He was not in special education nor did he have an IEP.

[Anonymous]

My DS, who is not in SPED, was in team taught GenEd classes within the past 2 years. They were for Math.

[Anonymous]

OP, as hard as it is .. I would wait and see how it plays out.

Have you studied the courses for high school. If she takes Algebra 2 in 12th grade, for example, have you worked backwards to know what she would take in 11th, 10th, this year.

Mostly important ~ if she overall schedule is not too hard, she's not as likely to need a separate, SPED education. She can still go to college without talking honors, AP classes, or very advanced math. She can go to college somewhere.

[Anonymous]

How are you seeing teachers and classes already?

[Anonymous]

My daughter has an IEP for dyslexia and is in two honors classes and two team taught- for the team taught the sped teacher is listed on her schedule. I think only 6-8 kids in the class have an IEP and rest do not do it is a “regular” class

[Anonymous]

If they are team taught classes, then not all of the kids in the class will have IEPs. There will be one general ed teacher and one SPED teacher in the class. The SPED teacher will be listed on the schedule of the kids with IEPs, but in our experience, the gen ed teacher is the "lead" in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What type of classes did you put in her IEP for placement last year? Gen Ed, team taught, self contained?

There are no teams in high school. Your child gets teachers based on the courses they registered for. If team taught or self contained, that is why they are sped teachers. If you intended her to be in gen Ed, there is a mistake and you need to reach out to the counselor to get a class change (and I would CC her case manager on the email).

Not all classes are sped though, right? PE, electives won’t be, unless strats is an elective. Home room/advisory will be because (at my school at least) all IEP students are assigned their case manager for advisory for extra support.

How did she get her schedule so early? As a teacher I can’t even see my rosters yet.

I'm confused. Do FCPS high schools have team taught classes?

There are team taught classes.
There are not teams, a la middle school, where a science, math, English, and SS teacher all have the same batch of kids and have weekly meetings to discuss students.

[Anonymous]

In FCPS there are team taught General Ed courses. When they list teacher for some reason they just list the sped teacher even though there is a regular Ed teacher too. Not all of the students there have IEP’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In FCPS there are team taught General Ed courses. When they list teacher for some reason they just list the sped teacher even though there is a regular Ed teacher too. Not all of the students there have IEP’s.

Forgot to add no do not call an IEP meeting. Just find out if it’s general Ed. Team taught is not a big deal and it makes it more possible to accommodate.