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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the Prior PP whose 6th grader has an IEP for these types of issues. This is the perfect year for your son to learn to follow directions. The key here is that you and the school need to support him with that.

[b] On tests, he should be circling or highlighting key words - even if that means he takes the test on paper rather than computer. For an assignment, the teacher, aide, (or you depending on the assignment) should go through the rubric with him and make sure he understands what to do. Before he turns in his work, he needs to go through the rubric again and check off all the items he completed. If he missed any, then he needs to complete them. These are all things that can be built into a 504 plan. [/b]

If he loses points on a test or assignment because he didn’t follow/understand the directions, then walk through with him where he went wrong and how to do it better next time.

This is part of what he needs to be learning in school. Some things are harder for certain kids to learn and that’s okay. Keep working on it. But, as you can see in this thread, it is important that he learn this skill.

-signed mom of a kid who got every math “estimation” question wrong for three years because he didn’t read carefully enough and didn’t estimate. [/quote]

OP here.

Yeah we're calling today to talk to his counselor about having his teachers reread his 504 plan, make sure that his testing accommodations are being implemented (according to him, they're not), and to add a goal of making him be better at following directions.[/quote]
So his teacher writes on the rubric “include cover page with colorful border”. Now you want teacher to reread the 504 plan, and add a goal of “making him better at following directions” ? 
How about mommy and daddy say “sonny, where’s the rubric for this poetry project? Let’s be sure you’ve ticked all the boxes.” [/quote]

THIS. What PP says just above. +1

Parents now fear "helicoptering" so much, and at the same time demand so much from teachers and administrators, that they can end up thinking they shouldn't take any role in a child's homework organization. Note that I'm saying organization--I am not saying to do the child's homework for him. But since OP's son has known issues that already mean he has a 504 plan and needs accommodations at school, then at home he also should be getting help in learning to organize himself for success. And that means what the PP above says: "Let's sit down together and go over the rubric before you begin this project." Then: "Let's go over the rubric now that you're done, and check that you ticked all the boxes before you turn this in."

Kids (whether they need accommodations or don't) are not born knowing how to set priorities, use their time wisely, have a process for checking directions, etc. They have to learn it and parents shouldn't assume teachers have time to teach that in school. It's best taught at home in the context of planning and completing homework--and parents are the ones to guide that learning. OP, I'm not saying YOU never do this! But many parents including some on DCUM seem to think it's cheating or hovering ever to teach their own kids organizational skills or to look at their kids' assignments. [/quote]
Or, just say, "did you do everything on the rubric?" I don't consider that much of a help or helicopering but apparently OP doesn't even want to hold herself and her kid to asking that about a project assignment.  Instead, call principal, have meeting, add burden to teacher, while parents hold themselves accountable for zero.  [/quote]

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