Special education students require more assistance than most students. Because these students typically struggle with verbal and written language, additional assistance is needed for them to learn and retain knowledge. Because each child’s learning abilities are unique, an individual plan is needed for each special education student. The individual plan puts assistance and accommodations where they are needed for an individual to actualize potential abilities.
Write six Life Skills Portfolio, or LSP. Goals to be achieved by the end of the school year. Write the procedures to be used for evaluating and demonstrating progress and record keeping procedures in clear language so that everyone understands what is expected.
Clarify each team member’s role in helping the student to accomplish goals. Each team member’s role should be in writing. Document the team’s decisions about alternate assessment options for tracking the student’s progress. These include parent input, classroom teachers and therapists, to name a few. The team should follow written procedure guidelines to determine which alternate assessment is the most appropriate for the student.
Identify three unique learning outcomes for the first goal area, which is communication. Each unique learning outcome will require programming data to allow for tracking a student’s progress by scoring. Identify three unique learning outcomes for the problem solving goal area. Each unique learning outcome will require programming data to allow for tracking a student’s progress by scoring. Reference a specific goal or objective for each of the required learning goals.