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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There needs to be a reduction in paperwork. There was a proposal to have IEP meetings be every three years. The current state of overwhelming sped teachers with paperwork and meetings while at the same time as being required to have large caseloads and teach so many students is not possible. Something has to give.

Special education teachers are voting with their feet and leaving special education. I know two teachers who have special education credentials but won't teach special education. They left the district and one got hired at a private school and one as a general education teacher. [/quote]

Every three years? That's absurd. No IEP could reasonably identify goals and objectives covering three years.  Even one year is often absurd.

But I agree they absolutely need to bring in additional staff to help with the administrative processes and to reduce caseload.[/quote]

The special education teacher and parent could meet instead to figure out goals. No reason a general education teacher and principal need to be there. [/quote]

Maybe not in ES, but in secondary school, I disagree. The special educators don’t know the curriculum and don’t know what on grade level performance looks like. The result is that goals can be very out of sync with the general education curriculum and learning environment. I’ll give one example: “Larla will write a complete sentence in 7 out of 10 opportunities.” Meanwhile, the curriculum asks students in Larla’s grade to write a paragraph with a thesis statement, two to three pieces of evidence to support the thesis, and reasoning. The general ed teacher can check the box that the mismatched goal was met quarterly and yet Larla still cannot write a thesis statement with an identifiable claim or explain how her evidence supports her claim. [/quote]

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