I knew that there was a lot of data collection, I figured it couldn't be that hard. What I was not prepared for was the task of keeping data for 15+ students across four grade levels on a regular basis...HELP!
My classroom services students with mild-moderate learning disabilities. This means that the majority of my students spend most of their time in their general education classroom. This makes it very difficult for me come IEP time to get a good understanding of where they are at with their present levels. It also doesn't help that each teacher has a different style of working and collecting student info. It would be great if each of them had a nice little binder waiting for me with student work so that I could dive in and get what I need. That's very rarely the case. We all have our own organizational styles and that's fine with me.
What I've done to tackle this issue is I've typed up a present levels form that I can fill out when I meet with the general education teacher prior to the IEP. It helps to give our conference a direction and to work efficiently. To expedite the process I went through each of the standards and notated a reference in the measure section to the curriculum so that we have a starting off point for each standard.
One thing that I never quite developed is that beautiful teacher handwriting. My penmanship skills peaked in the fourth grade. For that reason, I like to bring my laptop to meet with the teachers, type directly in the document, and print it out when I'm done. If you have beautiful handwriting, I'm jealous...you can just print it out and fill it out by hand as you go.
See my mini-tutoral to find out how to add your curriculum reference points to your document.
Below are some samples of my third grade PLOP packet. There is a peek at the blank document and a shot of what my document that I use looks like. Of course, it's up in my TPT store, stop by and check it out!
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