With classroom sizes getting larger and IEP/Section 504 plans on the rise, teachers need help more than ever to keep each child’s education plan straight.
The Council of Exceptional Children (CEC) has created a wonderful place for teachers to go and learn more about managing the exceptional children that have these types of education plans. They even have a blog so that you can get the latest information on IEP/Section 504s…
- CEC Teacher Support
- CEC Teacher Blog
- CEC Bookstore (It’s amazing!)
- Eight Steps to Help Students Develop IEP Goals
- Facilitated IEP Meetings Help Special Education Students
As a parent of two special needs children as well as a trained facilitator for my career, I have the unique opportunity to look at IEP/Section 504 Meeting dynamics for each meeting I attend. Often there is always someone who simply has not taken the time to learn about my child’s needs and comes with some very different conceptions on what my child needs… not every parent is as understanding as I am regarding their children… and with a little tweak here and there, you can really get a great collaborative effort going… after all the goal is to help the child… (Even as a trained facilitator I even find my emotions running high and hard to manage at times! so how are non-trained staff and parents going to come to consensus? they are not…)
Here’s a few places that are experimenting with facilitators in the IEP/Section 504 meetings…
- The IEP Facilitated Meeting Fact Sheet
- Purpose of the Facilitator
- Facilitated IEP Meetings – An Emerging Practice
Parents… if you simply spend 5 or 10 minutes at the CEC website, you will soon come to know just how special your teachers are – there are so many things they have to know and handle.
