The Basic Do's and Dont's of IEP meetings - produced by Julia Clark — Transcript

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1. 0:01an effective IEP meeting is dependent
2. 0:04upon sound information communication and
3. 0:07most importantly preparation preparation
4. 0:10saves time prevents misunderstandings
5. 0:13and conveys professionalism and
6. 0:15confidence let's look at two separate
7. 0:17scenarios displaying the dos and don'ts
8. 0:19of IEP meetings first we'll start with
9. 0:22the
10. 0:26don'ts hey Colleen I just want to remind
11. 0:28you about the IEP meeting today after
12. 0:30school 2:30 see you there
13. 0:38[Music]
14. 0:48[Music]
15. 1:03I'm sure everybody will be here soon Mr
16. 1:05Jones um they said they'd be here at
17. 1:072:30 and I know it's a little bit past
18. 1:092:30 but they said they'd be here so so
19. 1:12how long are we going to wait not very
20. 1:14long hopefully you can
21. 1:19[Music]
22. 1:21wait oh good here come the General Ed
23. 1:23teachers
24. 1:25now going to win okay hi you guys hey
25. 1:29how are you good thank goodness you're
26. 1:30here um we're missing the administrator
27. 1:33and uh The Interpreter let me find out
28. 1:35where they are okay just hang
29. 1:41on yes I was just wondering if Miss
30. 1:43Owens is coming to the IEP meeting also
31. 1:47The Interpreter what's with that okay
32. 1:50all right
33. 1:51thanks well The Interpreter job didn't
34. 1:54get picked up by the SubFinder so we
35. 1:56don't have anybody and the administrator
36. 1:58is in a meeting right now she said to go
37. 2:00ahead though and she'll try to make it
38. 2:02before the end of the
39. 2:04meeting Greg since you speak Spanish
40. 2:07could you interpret for us as we don't
41. 2:09have anybody else sure
42. 2:12yito should we go over the parent rights
43. 2:14with them
44. 2:15first I forgot the parent rights do you
45. 2:18have them do you have them in Spanish Lu
46. 2:20oh good
47. 2:24okay
48. 2:26in engl
49. 2:35noral noral
50. 2:52are so miss giry will you give your
51. 2:55report now on how he's doing in your
52. 2:57class oh I didn't know I had to bring
53. 3:00anything do you have some student work
54. 3:01handy no I don't have anything well I
55. 3:04guess I can just talk about them how
56. 3:06they're doing in Reading okay we'll
57. 3:07start with reading so right now your
58. 3:09child should be able to read about 92
59. 3:12words per minute but he's only able to
60. 3:14read
61. 3:1630
62. 3:18no okay hi everyone I apologize for
63. 3:21being late go ahead
64. 3:24continue oh um this isn't the PLC
65. 3:27meeting is it no it's an I meeting um
66. 3:30what room is the PLC meeting in that's
67. 3:33in building 14 I I think it's 16 16 but
68. 3:36my principal says try 14 then go to 16
69. 3:39if it's not at 16 go to 15 then come
70. 3:40back here okay um thanks sorry for the
71. 3:51interruption so Mr Mrs Jones do you have
72. 3:54any questions about what we discussed
73. 3:55today to toas okay well I'll have you
74. 3:58sign the IEP said for mey and we'll send
75. 4:01a copy home
76. 4:03[Music]
77. 4:08tomorrow well thanks for coming thank
78. 4:11thank you
79. 4:13bye did they seem upset yeah has it
80. 4:17always been that
81. 4:18hostile I was telling her I don't think
82. 4:20that they were prepared for this meeting
83. 4:22think
84. 4:22she well that's part of the problem
85. 4:25maybe she didn't like hearing what you
86. 4:26said about her that could be true I'm
87. 4:28sure they've been
88. 4:34now let's look at the dues of a
89. 4:36well-prepared IEP
90. 4:38meeting like all effective meetings
91. 4:40preparing and informing key members in
92. 4:43advance is
93. 4:44[Music]
94. 4:46key hi Colleen how are you doing I'm
95. 4:49good how are you I'm good I'm good I
96. 4:51just came by to remind you about the IEP
97. 4:53meeting tomorrow yeah the one for Elijah
98. 4:56yes for one at 2:30 and it's in the
99. 4:58conference room I'll be since we're
100. 5:00going to probably mainstream him for
101. 5:02math those work samples you gave me will
102. 5:05be very valuable and I'll give you a
103. 5:07chance to talk about them with the
104. 5:08parents tomorrow at the meeting oh
105. 5:11that's good because I'm really excited
106. 5:12about his progress and I want to share
107. 5:14that with the parents I'm sure they'll
108. 5:16be so excited too so all right well
109. 5:18we'll see you tomorrow we'll see you
110. 5:20then not sooner
111. 5:21okay teamwork is key to the Student
112. 5:25Success double check everything prior to
113. 5:28the meeting people's attendance
114. 5:30paperwork room location Etc communicate
115. 5:34with general education teachers as to
116. 5:36the purpose of the IEP meeting what
117. 5:39kinds of work samples to bring and what
118. 5:41their role will be at the meeting
119. 5:43maintain a professional but friendly and
120. 5:46focused environment for example greet
121. 5:49people introduce everyone at the
122. 5:51beginning of the meeting shake hands at
123. 5:53the end of the
124. 5:56meeting hi you guys come on in hi Janet
125. 5:59how are you doing hello hello hi R how
126. 6:02are you doing hi Ryan Julia um you sit
127. 6:06um right on the corner there because the
128. 6:08parents are going to be at the end
129. 6:10sounds great all right
130. 6:12thanks anybody else here oh good the
131. 6:16G
132. 6:19fantastic hi Miss nice to see
133. 6:23[Music]
134. 6:25you thank you
135. 6:28[Music]
136. 6:29hi Mr and Mrs Jones come in nice to meet
137. 6:32you nice to see you again that's right
138. 6:35yes come on in we have a place for you
139. 6:37to stand right
140. 6:39[Music]
141. 6:44here hello everybody hi thank you for
142. 6:47coming today Mr and Mrs Jones we really
143. 6:50appreciate your presence
144. 6:57here the purpose of the meeting today is
145. 6:59to um talk about uh reducing the number
146. 7:03of minutes that Elijah is in special
147. 7:05education math but before we do that I
148. 7:08would like to offer you a copy of the
149. 7:11parent rights uh this one is for Mr
150. 7:14Jones and this one is in Spanish for Mrs
151. 7:17Jones what we're going to do is we're
152. 7:19going to introduce ourselves and tell
153. 7:21you how we are involved in Elijah's life
154. 7:24at school so I'll start I'm Mrs Clark
155. 7:27and I'm the RSP special education
156. 7:29teacher and right now I have him for
157. 7:31language arts and
158. 7:36math I'm Mr flowers I'm the school
159. 7:40psychologist and I'm Janet flowers I'm
160. 7:42the speech language pathologist here
161. 7:44working with your
162. 7:47son is Ry nap an
163. 7:50interpreter and I'm Miss giry I'm
164. 7:52Elijah's teacher Mr Elli physical
165. 7:56education and I'm Mrs Owens I'm the
166. 7:58administrator here on campus um we're
167. 8:01going to hear from uh various people
168. 8:03we'll start with Mr flowers on the
169. 8:05testing that he
170. 8:08did here's a copy of my report and this
171. 8:11graph explains the report 100 average
172. 8:13for standard score
173. 8:169 she's wondering
174. 8:19why and I've also been working with him
175. 8:22here's a copy of my report and I also
176. 8:25have a graph that shows a little bit
177. 8:27about how he performed in relation to
178. 8:29other children his same age and I wanted
179. 8:31to just talk about how well Elijah is
180. 8:34doing in math right now and I have some
181. 8:35more examples to show you that he is at
182. 8:38grade level working he's able to do his
183. 8:41addition and subtraction your son is
184. 8:43performing right now at grade level in
185. 8:46all areas for physical education he's
186. 8:48showing great uh teamwork skills and
187. 8:50also even some leadership skills out on
188. 8:52the field Mrs Jones we'll send a packet
189. 8:55of materials home for you to work with
190. 8:57Elijah we have them sign some forms if
191. 9:00they want us to implement the IP as
192. 9:02we've described it have them sign right
193. 9:06there okay and you'll get a get a copy
194. 9:09of the IEP you have your parent rights
195. 9:12and you have copies of all the reports
196. 9:14well this concludes our meeting at this
197. 9:16time but I want you to feel free to
198. 9:19contact us at any time if you uh would
199. 9:21like to call another meeting otherwise
200. 9:24we'll see you about this time next year
201. 9:26we really appreciate
202. 9:28it we just watched some of the things to
203. 9:31do and not to do during an IEP meeting
204. 9:34the elements of good communication sound
205. 9:36information and most importantly
206. 9:38preparation should be present above all
207. 9:41teamwork is the key to the Student
208. 9:43Success and ours as well