Progress monitoring — two words that can send a chill down the spine of even the most seasoned special education teachers, speech-language pathologists (SLPs), occupational therapists (OTs), and physical therapists (PTs). With special education caseloads larger than...
It’s progress monitoring time for your entire caseload. Your IEP (Individualized Education Plan) goals are written for measurement by data, and you pour through your notes trying to come up with something you wrote that can show progress. Not finding anything...
I remember my first year teaching and working with another special education teacher, she was helping me work on creating my schedule. She told me Fridays are always blocked off for progress monitoring. Not knowing any different, I followed her advice. It took me...