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SED 682 Special Education Regulations, Procedures, and the IEP Team

University of Southern Maine Walter H. Kimball

Summer 2023 #1120 3 credits May 15, 2023 - June 30

Module Five Overview

Individualized Education Program (IEP) Part I

June 12 - June 18

MO 5.1: Analyze a sample IEP to determine goals and services.

MO 5.2 Discuss with peers elements of a successful IEP team

The Individualized Education Program (IEP) is the team developed plan for a student’s special education services. The IEP represents the commitments of the school district and parents/guardian to providing a free appropriate public education to a student with disabilities. IDEA 2004 included some changes in the IEP format. For example, whereas previously the IEP included annual goals and short term (quarterly) objectives for every student, now only annual goals are required except for students with significant disabilities who are participating in a state’s alternate assessment program.

Click here for information on the circumstances requiring short term IEP goals.

Click here for an overview of the IEP process.

Click here for more information on the IEP process.

Now we move to the Maine IEP. Click here for the special education Maine State Required Forms Procedural Manual, effective Aug 1, 2020, and the state model IEP form effective Aug 1, 2020.

We have seen IEP’s referenced in various places in this course. The purpose of this session is to introduce the writing of IEP’s. The following material should complement nicely the examination of the special education referral, identification, and services process from the last two sessions.

Click here for an overview of the IEP document.

Click here for contributions of IEP team members.

Click here for detail on the contents of an IEP.

There is also a requirement to consider special factors in developing the IEP. The Maine IEP model form has a section documenting consideration of these factors. Click here for information on IEP special factors.

IEP’s are developed and monitored through a collaborating team. Click here for an overview of IEP Team Meetings.

Create a Google Doc titled [Last Name] Module Five IEP Analysis Assignment SED 682 Spr 23

Click here for an IEP Guide pulling it all together.

The Module Five Assignment focuses on the sample IEP’s in Appendix A (p. 24) of the IEP Guide. Select two of the sample IEP’s. You will analyze each IEP.

You have received this IEP from the district from which a new student of yours has moved. You are the student’s special education teacher or school psychologist supporting the student’s transition to your district.

This IEP is your primary record of the student’s past special education program before you have had a chance to work with the student. Summarize what you learned from this student’s IEP that will help you both continue and adapt this IEP. Use each student’s name as a header in the document for that part of the assignment. Be specific, explaining details about present level of performance, goals, and services (special education, related services, supplementary aids and services such as accommodations. Minimum length two well developed paragraphs for each IEP.

Click here for an assignment exemplar. It is a risk providing an exemplar of a case analysis using the same scenario as the assignment as the exemplar may contain ideas you were thinking. Please don’t dwell on that- I trust you will use the exemplar as representing depth of analysis and apply it to your own thinking even if selected ideas may be similiar. A rewrite of the exemplar is obviously not permitted.

The assignment will be submitted in two ways.

1. Share the document with me with editing permission, [email protected]

*Click on the blue SHARE button in upper right corner of the Google Doc.

*See the Share with People and Groups area

*In the Add People text line, insert [email protected]

make sure permission is set to edit. Click Send

*Reopen the Share button. Click on the link at the bottom of the window reading Change to University of Maine System

*Click Done

1. Submit the link to the document in the Module Five IEP Analysis Assignment submission section of Module Five in the SED 682 Brightspace course shell

To get the Share link:

1. click on the blue SHARE button in the upper right corner of the Google Doc.

2. Click on the Copy link button. Click Done.

3. This is the link you will paste in the Module Five IEP Analysis Assignment section per the instructions.

Module Five IEP Analysis assignment document shared with instructor and link submitted in Assignment area due Sunday, June 18, end of day.

The assignment will also be posted in a new thread in the Module Five IEP Analysis discussion on the Brightspace course site. Copy and paste your analysis into a new thread in the discussion forum. Read the entries of the other course members. Select two other threads with analyses that are of interest to you, regardless of whether the students were ones you selected. Use the Reply button and explain in a detailed paragraph how their analyses extended your own thinking about these IEP’s. Remember to click Post when you are finished.

New thread posted in the Module Five IEP Analysis Discussion Forum due Sunday June 18, end of day. Replies due Tuesday June 20, end of day.