Special Education in High School

[Anonymous]

OP, my DS also has an IEP for executive functioning, all of his classes are team taught and on his schedule they listed special ed teachers. He doesn't care and neither do his friends. Please do not stress out. If she was in self-contained classrooms, that would be specified in her IEP.

[Anonymous]

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

This just means there were some SPED kids in the class. A lot of kids have learning "disabilities" that are NOT related to ADHD, or behavioral. Dyslexia, for example has a wide range on its spectrum for learning disabilities. It is not a behavioral or intellegence issue, it is a way of learning issue or a need for more time. Often, there are "team" taught HS classes( 2 teachers 1 SPED and 1 Main). The Main teacher teaches all content, the SPED teacher assists and helps out SPED kids in the classroom if needed. The SPED teacher can also lend assistance to any of the general Ed kids in the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

You can also request that her IEP be changed to only include SPED services for certain classes. Example, if she is strong in math/science then have the IEP change to services for Language Arts and History, then her team taught/SPED listed teachers would only be for those two subjects.
My child has dyslexia but their team in MS decided that they really only needed services for Language arts. Simply because it takes them longer to get through reading passages and a bit longer to write. Their comprehension is through the roof. My child also has some honors level classes, there is not an option in those classes to have SPED.

[Anonymous]

She is in team taught classes but the sped teacher is her teacher of record. It will be a mix of Gen Ed kids and kids with IEPs and two teachers. What you think is happening would be a self contained class which you would NOT accidentally end up in and would never be in for a IEP like this one.

-high school team teacher

[Anonymous]

Also even if somehow none of her friends are in team-taught general ed, that could all change by midyear. There is often quite a trickle and occasionally a flood of students from honors classes into team taught.