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All sp. ed. students have IEPs - individualized education programs - with specific learning goals. Things like doing double digit addition with carrying with a success rate of 70% when given 10 problems by November 15th. That's just a made up example but that's the sort of thing you can expect to see in an IEP.
On Monday I started working with one young man on one of his goals (street sign identification - very important, gotta know when to cross the street and stuff). In two days he's gone from a success rate of 4/11 to 9/11. Confidentiality rules mean I can't give the details of his goals but he has gone above and beyond expectations and he did it immediately. I could seriously stop right now and not teach him anymore about signs and he'll be considered as having successfully completed this goal.
OR I could keep going and teach him the other 22 signs and force him to get an accuracy of 33/33. To make him more successful in the community. And so I can badger my student because I'm a mean teacher >:).
On Monday I started working with one young man on one of his goals (street sign identification - very important, gotta know when to cross the street and stuff). In two days he's gone from a success rate of 4/11 to 9/11. Confidentiality rules mean I can't give the details of his goals but he has gone above and beyond expectations and he did it immediately. I could seriously stop right now and not teach him anymore about signs and he'll be considered as having successfully completed this goal.
OR I could keep going and teach him the other 22 signs and force him to get an accuracy of 33/33. To make him more successful in the community. And so I can badger my student because I'm a mean teacher >:).