Letters+&+Forms

> IEP Blue Books.pdf
 * The following link is to a PDF file outlying the necessary contents in a blue book. In special education pre-k, each student has to have blue book for IEP (Individualized Educational Plan) record purposes.

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 * For record keeping, make copies of notes to parents and from parents. Print out the copies and keep them in a file.
 * For record keeping, keep students' files for seven years and then shred all the papers.
 * Email parents newsletters as PDF files so that they cannot change the newsletters. Parents can change Word documents and claim that the teacher wrote something different than what she actually wrote.
 * Have a room mom that creates a parent volunteer form and schedules parent volunteers for each month. In the newsletter, give a shout-out to the parents who volunteered.
 * In a parent-teacher conference, do not tell the parents that //mentally// their child is at a two-year-old level but that //developmentally// their child is at a two-year-old level.
 * In my special education pre-k class, each student has a one-inch binder that he/she takes to and from school in which the teacher sends home work, notes, behavior sheets, etc. and in which the parents send notes to school.
 * The MI/MO teacher explains to her students' parents that her priorities are first the students, second their work, and third communication with their parents. Therefore, if she has not contacted them, they know why and can always call her. She said that she has received a lot of compliments from parents about her priorities and her commitment to them.
 * For parent-teacher conferences, my special education pre-k teacher sets the times for the parents to come in and sends out the form. If the parents cannot attend the meeting at the appointed time, then they can change their meeting to a different time.

> Daily Take Home Binder Form.pdf
 * Daily form sent home in students' binders:

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 * Weekly newsletter sent home in students' binders:

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 * Record of students' daily behavior to be sent home:

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 * Chart for marking "Yes" if the student met the goal or "No" if the student did not meet the goal:

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 * Record of whether student was on or off task:

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 * Record of tried interventions:

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 * Chart of independent actions:

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 * Frequency count of specific behavior:

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 * Sheet to record occurrences of specific behavior:

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 * Goal monitoring:

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 * Benchmarks: