Iep school program: ADHD Factsheet (for Schools) (for Parents)

Autism Factsheet (for Schools) (for Parents)

Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD

What Teachers Should Know

Autism is one of the most common developmental disabilities. People with autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD), have differences in the way their brains develop and process information. As a result, they face significant communication, social, and behavior challenges.

Symptoms can be severe and interfere with everyday tasks, or they can be mild and cause only a few problems. Experts call this range of symptoms a “spectrum.” Asperger syndrome and pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) are conditions that fall within the autism spectrum.

Signs of autism may include:

• trouble interacting, playing with, or relating to others
• little or brief eye contact with others
• unusual or repetitive movements, such as hand flapping, spinning, or tapping
• delays in developmental milestones or loss of already-achieved milestones
• difficulties learning in school
• playing with toys in ways that seem odd or repetitive
• low muscle tone, clumsiness, and poor spatial awareness

Although there’s no cure for autism, early intervention and therapy can help kids develop skills and achieve their potential. Therapy is tailored to each child’s individual needs and may include behavioral, educational, speech, and occupational therapies.

Students with autism may:

• get easily frustrated and act out in certain situations
• be sensitive to bright lights, loud noises, or busy hallways
• need to go to the school nurse for medications
• miss class time for doctor visits and therapies
• have trouble speaking or not speak at all
• seem insensitive or unemotional
• need extra time for class assignments and homework
• need to take tests in a separate area away from distractions

Because bullies often target students who seem “different,” health conditions like autism can put kids and teens at higher risk for bullying.

What Teachers Can Do

Many students with autism can thrive in a structured environment, so establish a routine and keep it as consistent as possible. Adhering to daily schedules and allowing ample time for transitions can help with many students’ behavioral issues and frustrations.

Instructional support is often needed within the classroom setting. Students with autism learn better with pictures and demonstrations. Limit long verbal instructions and provide visual cues and written instructions, when possible. Also limit distractions and use positive rewards for positive behaviors.

Many people with autism have strong passions and deep interests. Getting to know your students’ likes and dislikes can help you understand what motivates them. Students with autism can participate in most activities that other kids and teens do, so provide encouragement to participate when appropriate.

Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD

Date reviewed: June 2018

Individualized Education Program (IEP)

An individualized education program (IEP) is a written document for students with disabilities ages 3 through 25 that outlines the student’s educational needs and goals and any programs and services the intermediate school district (ISD) and/or its member district will provide to help the student make educational progress.

The document is written by the IEP team at an IEP team meeting. The IEP is reviewed at least once a year.

IEP Development

Individualized Education Program (IEP) Development: Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP) (PDF)
This document supports IEP teams in developing a present level of academic achievement and functional performance statement that supports both the compliance and substantive obligation of providing a free appropriate public education (FAPE) under IDEA.

Least Restrictive Environment (LRE): A Technical Assistance Case Study (PDF)
IDEA requires state education agencies to carry out activities to ensure teachers and administrators in all public agencies are fully informed about their responsibilities for implementing LRE. The case study, continuum, and scenarios are training and awareness building tools for public agencies to use with general education and special education teachers and administrators.

• LRE Continuum (PDF)
• LRE Scenarios (PDF)

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities (PDF)
Guidance outlining transition requirements, components of transition planning, and a list of community agencies and other transition resources.

Personal Curriculum

Individualized Education Program (IEP) Development: Special Education Programs and Services (PDF)
This document supports the development of an IEP based on the unique needs of the student, which are described in the Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP)

Individualized Education Program (IEP) Development: Supplementary Aids and Services (PDF)
When developing an IEP for a student the IEP Team is required to include a description of the supplementary aids and services, based on peer-reviewed research to the extent practicable, including modifications, accommodations and supports for school personnel.

Individualized Education Program (IEP) Amendment Guidance (PDF)
This guidance is intended to assist IEP Teams that may need to amend an IEP document over the course of the school year.

Alternate Assessment Participation
MI-Access is Michigan’s alternate assessment system and is designed for students who have, or function as if they have, significant cognitive impairments, and whose IEP Team has determined that General Assessments, even with accommodations, are not appropriate.

Measurable Annual Goals and Short-Term Objectives (PDF)
IEP goals and objectives must include certain components to measure and report student progress.

Measurable Annual Goals and Short-Term Objectives – Substantive Compliance (PDF)
Information for determining substantive compliance for the purposes of educational benefit.

Standards for Extended School Year Services in Michigan (PDF)
Extended School Year (ESY) services refer to special education and/or related services provided beyond the normal school year or school day for the purpose of providing a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to a student with a disability.

Guidance for Extended School Year Services in Michigan (PDF)
Extended School Year (ESY) services must be considered for every student with a disability at each IEP team meeting. This guidance defines ESY services and helps the IEP team determine whether a student needs ESY services.

Graduation Decisions for Students with Disabilities (PDF)
This document supports Individualized Education Program (IEP) Teams in developing an individualized plan for graduation over a multi-year time frame.

Guidance for Notice (PDF)
Districts must follow certain requirements for providing notice.

IEP Implementation

FAPE for Adult Learners (PDF)
Providing special education programs and services is the responsibility of all public agencies involved in the education of adult learners with disabilities. Michigan intermediate school districts (ISD) fulfill an important role in ensuring students have access to appropriate and supportive education which positively impacts the trajectory of their lives. ISDs have systems in place to ensure all eligible students with disabilities are provided with appropriate programs and services, which includes eligible adult learners with disabilities, age 18 to 26.

FAPE in the County Jail (PDF)
Students with disabilities confined to county jails maintain their entitlement to special education programs and services and a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as specified in their individualized education program (IEP). This document provides information regarding the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Michigan Compiled Law (MCL), and Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education (MARSE) pertaining to eligible students (birth to 26) while they are confined to county jails in the state of Michigan.

Provision of Special Education Services for Transfer Students (PDF)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education (MARSE) address how districts must handle the provision of special education for students who are currently eligible for special education programs and services and have transferred to a new district with a completed IEP.

Providing Homebound and Hospitalized Educational Services for Michigan Public School Pupils (PDF)
Districts must provide services to students who are homebound or hospitalized, including special education services for eligible students.

Public Agency Placement of Students With Disabilities in Private Schools (PDF)
Public agencies may place a student in a private school setting in order to provide a free appropriate public education. The Application for Private School Placement (located in the Public Agency Placement of Students With Disabilities in Private Schools document) must be completed and submitted to the Michigan Department of Education for approval.

Parent Friendly Resources

Family Matters is an outreach effort from the Michigan Department of Education Office of Special Education (MDE OSE) that provides parents with information about special education and other resources. Family Matters Fact Sheets explain special education laws, rules, and practices in parent friendly language. The fact sheets are easy to read and give links to more in-depth resources.

how school education will change – Uchitelskaya gazeta

In the next academic year, all Russian schools will switch to uniform federal basic general education programs. How these innovations will change the lives of teachers and schoolchildren, read in our material.

Photo: press service of the Russian Ministry of Education

According to the website of the State Duma, amendments to the law “On Education” were adopted in the second and third readings. Such an initiative appeared due to the fact that each school had its own school programs. As Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State Duma, explained, earlier parents regularly received complaints that when transferring a child from one school to another, children are faced with a completely different program and they have to catch up on knowledge, including at the expense of tutors. nine0005

Uniform educational standards

Starting next year, unified federal basic general education programs (FOOP) will be introduced in all schools in the country. These standards will work rather as a mandatory base, which should become the basis of educational programs.

The Russian Ministry of Education will develop new programs. The agency must submit the draft by January 1, 2023, in order for the new law to work from September 1, 2023. Regional representatives will also be involved in the development so that the programs include national and cultural characteristics. nine0005

New textbook development process

In addition, changes will affect the textbook development process. Thus, the Ministry of Education will now make a state order for the preparation of textbooks and teaching aids. The agency will also approve the team of authors, but the exclusive rights to the material will belong to the state.

“Gold Standard”

The new law establishes a single standard for the quality of school education – both the programs themselves and textbooks. According to the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, co-author of the amendments Petr Tolstoy, the new amendments will make life easier for teachers, parents and children. This will happen due to the fact that different programs in each school will become a thing of the past. nine0005

Also, thanks to this, textbooks will be created according to a single standard, which means that they will have fewer errors and misinterpretations of history. The final certification will also be formed on the basis of the FOOP, and therefore parents will not have to hire tutors for their children to prepare for exams.

In what subjects will the MEP be introduced

As Olga Kazakova, Chairman of the relevant Committee on Education, said, the MEP will appear in all subjects, but only in a few will they become mandatory. Uniform basic programs in the Russian language, reading and the world around will be approved for elementary schools. In secondary school, programs in the Russian language and literature, history, social studies, geography and life safety will become mandatory. The work program of education and the federal calendar plan of educational work will also be mandatory. nine0005

Private schools

Legislators emphasize that the MEP will be mandatory for all schools, including private schools. The authors of the initiative insist that children across the country should have equal access to education, regardless of where they live and the status of their parents.

At the same time, the law stipulates that schools can develop their own programs on their own, but the results of training “should not be lower than those corresponding to the content and results of federal basic general education programs.” nine0005

New textbooks

Although the draft law calls for the replacement of all textbooks, the authorities assure that the replacement will be gradual. Textbooks that are deemed legal will be used for another five years.

During the discussion of the bill, the deputies raised the issue of the availability of new textbooks for schools. Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Kravtsov assured that the new procedure for developing textbooks will make them cheaper and save regional budgets. This will be possible by saving on royalties, since the state will have exclusive rights to textbooks. nine0005

Which subjects should be added to the school curriculum and which should be removed

Anya Ivaneshkina

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From 2022, Russian schools will start teaching financial literacy.

And in the future, it is also proposed to include traffic rules, military training and sex education in the school curriculum. Readers T-Z told what subjects, in their opinion, are worthy of being in the educational program, and what is better to get rid of forever. nine0005

These are comments from readers from the T⁠—⁠F Community. Collected into one material, carefully edited and formatted according to editorial standards.

✅ Courses on Health, Taxes and Laws

❌ Technology and Physical Education

Eva

for Diversity Literature Course

Author Profile

Get the technology in its current form. Physical education can be left without grades and standards, but it is better to include it in a general course on health: talk about evidence-based medicine, why homeopathy and bullshit do not work, and for what reason a tail, horns and chips do not grow from vaccinations. nine0005

Strongly revise the literature course – with an emphasis on teaching you to understand works of art and how literature works in a cultural and historical context, diversify the program more. As well as a history course – with an emphasis on working with sources. And social studies – this is where I would just add financial literacy, economics and the basics of political science. And more about how taxation works in the Russian Federation and other countries, and about laws, and about civil law relations.

✅ Foreign literature and experiments

❌ Gender division in labor lessons

zauralskaya

for financial literacy for adults

Author profile

Would introduce the basics of logic and critical thinking. And foreign literature in order to understand the cultural foundations of the rest of the world.

Plus would increase the experimental part in physics and chemistry and rework all textbooks to include real examples from everyday life. Otherwise, everyone studied mathematics, but not everyone can calculate how many rolls of wallpaper are needed per room or how many will be on deposit in five years. nine0005

I would also remove the gender division in labor lessons. Let everyone learn to cook, sew on buttons and hammer nails together. By the way, I do not consider these lessons useless. They are good at helping to switch attention after intellectually loaded subjects.

Financial literacy is really a few lessons from a social studies course. You can give the basic principles during this time. But what is there to study for 40 minutes once a week for several years? Especially for teenagers who do not have access to these tools? They will study this financial literacy according to the principle of “memorized – passed – forgot.” nine0005

7 financial literacy courses for school-age children and teenagers

Financial literacy is acquired in the family, unfortunately. You can consciously change what you have learned only when there is both material and methods for work, that is, when money and earnings appear. It would be good to create good interactive training courses and distribute materials for free among adults, up to issuing memos in banks and links to courses from the public services portal. At the first stages, you can broadcast about it from each iron. So more adults will learn to handle money consciously and more children will adopt this model from the family. nine0005

✅ Ecology and medicine

❌ Music and religious education

KuroFlake

against physical education

Author profile

Would add ecology to the program – but not about ecological problems, but modern food chains. People must learn not only to solve them, but also to build the right relationship with the environment. Otherwise, we will die soon.

We need more topics related to human health. It is especially necessary to talk about the importance of vaccination, otherwise anti-vaccinators will soon flood the whole country. nine0005

Eliminate music and drawing as compulsory subjects, many go to clubs or special schools anyway. Separate rays of hatred for modern physical education classes, which basically cripple children and certainly do not make them healthier. And, of course, remove the lessons of Orthodoxy. The school is a secular institution.

✅ Political literacy and division of the program into levels of complexity

❌ Heavy workload and tutors

Maria Ivanilova

for teaching without shouting

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Would leave half of the program in most subjects so that children could finish school without tutors and study with pleasure, and not from morning to night instead of life. I would divide the program for each subject into simple, normal and complex and give the children a choice. Knowledge can then be replenished – but health cannot be restored so easily.

We need more items based on modern life: for example, an adequate explanation of our political system, so that the child knows who is responsible for what, who is now a municipal representative, and what exactly is his responsibility. It is necessary to explain how to write resumes and letters of recommendation. nine0005

And, most importantly, to teach teachers how to teach, treat students normally and manage the class without shouting, yelling and bullying. I studied in Canada for four and a half years, and that’s how the education system worked there. For all the time I have never heard a teacher raise his voice or publicly humiliate one of the students. But there they were expelled from school at the age of 16. If you cope with everything and there are no problems with discipline, study at least until 22, retrain and take new subjects. And if the school seems superfluous in your life – please, the door is there. nine0005

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“Socialization is excellent everywhere”: my daughter studied at a private, public and online school

✅ Sports sections and a logic course

❌ Dostoevsky and social science

AlenaStribog F

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foreign literature

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Would transform miserable social science, where a whole year passes, what society is, into a normal theory of state and law. A course of logic, slowly flowing into algorithms, would not interfere. I would also include a separate course with puzzles and intelligence tasks in the program. nine0005

Would make it possible to choose a sport for physical education lessons from several sections, at least from five. If you want – run, if you want – play squash with a wall, if you want – team games.

It is better to remove Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky from literature and replace them with foreign classics. It is idealistic, fascinating and would be good for young people under 17 years old. At 30, unfortunately, it is too late to read it, but Dostoevsky is just right.

I would also remove all educational disciplines from school – this is the task of the family. In principle, financial literacy is not needed if mathematics is taught normally in the sixth grade. The school itself has an obligation to develop literacy and a critical mind. And this already implies financial, legal, political, computer literacy and much more. nine0005

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Course: How to talk with children about money

✅ Techniques of training and options

❌ OBZH grade

Rizor

For Remote

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I think that it is necessary to add a subject where learning is taught – this is the main skill in the modern world. Memorization techniques, working with text and information sources, Internet search, structuring knowledge, highlighting the main thing, motivation, career guidance. Now these skills are developed by the method of “thrown into the water” – maybe someone will swim out. nine0005

It is desirable to add the possibility of electives – this is where distance education should shoot. Even if only one child in the school chooses an elective or if the school is rural and there are no appropriate teachers.

And it’s better to remove grades for the “most useful” subjects like fine arts, labor and physical education – leave tests. Completely change the life safety program – to study dangers, the probability of which is much higher than nuclear: bullying, crime, financial pyramids, domestic violence, addictions. nine0005

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Pros and cons: is it worth transferring children to family education

It would also be nice to distract the psychologist from the pieces of paper and “reveal” him to the children – or, again, provide the possibility of remote counseling.

✅ Economics and Psychology

❌ Advanced mathematics and chemistry

Kiran Yakovlev

against sines

Author profile can’t print a lot of money so that everyone has enough?” And psychology, taking into account age characteristics. Olga Khukhlaeva, for example, wrote excellent textbooks on psychology for secondary schools, I think they should be included in the program. nine0005

It is better to remove unnecessary mathematics, to reduce chemistry. Let schoolchildren not know sines, cosines and tangents and stop at the level of square and cubic equations – but children will understand them much better than now. And leave the rest for the level of universities.

Well, on the little things: to add sex education to the program so that schoolchildren at least understand that children come from sex and do not think that a condom does not help, since the spermatozoon is smaller than the pores in latex. Tie history and biology closer to the modern world. To tell, for example, why the recurrent laryngeal nerve is proof of the origin of mammals from fish, or that each of us is with some degree of probability a descendant of Genghis Khan. Then it will become interesting, will be remembered and assimilated. nine0005

✅ Ethics course

❌ Patriotic education

Anna Mityakova

against innovations in school

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Now some very gloomy subjects are being introduced. In parallel with the Russian language and literature, a native language and native literature appeared. And, God forgive me, patriotic education! Medinsky now travels to schools, talks about the evil Google and Russian roots. Posters are put up in schools, where they say that bad girls and boys have sex, but good ones do not. These marches in military uniform for all holidays in a row. First you need to get rid of all this rubbish, and then think about what to add positive. nine0005

In general, there is a strong lack of a subject that would tell about ethics: about respect and care for each other, the importance of human life, creation.

What to do if you don’t like school: 6 alternative options

✅ Financial literacy and sect studies

❌ Volume of works in literature lessons

Olga Malysheva

for work

Author’s profile 90 financial literacy and necessary security. You need to learn how to compare your income and expenses, use loans as little as possible and avoid pyramid schemes and other freebies. And, of course, you need to talk about safety on the Internet. nine0005

Also, it seems to me, it is necessary, oddly enough, to introduce sectarian studies in schools. To know at least a little about sects, their financing, methods of attraction, psychological impact and consequences of being in a sect. Immediately about magicians, sorcerers and other scammers.

But it is better to reduce the volume of works of literature and replace some of them with more modern classics.

✅ Modern language teaching methods

❌ Legacy science programs

Pavel Letvinov

for modern approaches

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It is worth completely changing the program in chemistry and physics. The current system is aimed at turning people into factory workers. Children in the 21st century do not need to know how a sulfuric acid plant works.

A foreign language is taught according to the grammar-translation method, like dead Latin or ancient Greek.