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- SBT notes Who requires an r om r
- teacher marks/records
- performance logs What is an IEP? IEP?

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- current and past teachers and
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- students themselves (e.g.,
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assessments, response journals
or learning logs)
Assessment
Practices
Planning of an IEP Who creates
IEPs?
school
counsellor

by Samantha Maliszewski

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Observing: app ent, if Parents or
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Watching, listening and examining ropr legal
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student work and monitoring guardian
responses to instruction
- checklists of student performance
and/or behaviour Sound explain the IEP
- rubrics and rating scales Collaboration process prior to
- product/work samples
Practices meetings and/or
- portfolios consultations so that
- audio or video recordings parents know what
- functional assessments to expect
Testing:
both formal and informal
- quizzes, probes and create an communication can
diagnostic skill inventories atmosphere take place in person make sufficient time
- criterion-referenced tests that is or through email, for participants to
- norm referenced tests respectful, telephone calls introduce References:
- alternative test formats trusting and and/or themselves and BC Ministry of Education (2009). Individual Education Planning for
– oral, graphic, electronic honest correspondence explain roles and Students with Special Needs: A Resource Guide for Teachers. Accessed at
responsibilities https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/kindergarten-to-grade-
12/teach/teaching-tools/inclusive/iepssn.pdf