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What's wrong with Special Education IEPs for High School students?

Discover how to fix the problem with most special education IEPs for high school students at http://transitionsurveys.org Most special educators do a good job of assessing academics, but they don't have an easy way to assess the strengths and needs related to functional skills, which are also called Transition skills or soft skills. These skills are essential for success in employment, independent living and postsecondary education and include skills like the ability to be organized, handle emotions appropriately, and accepting responsibility. Unfortunately, most special educators are not using age-appropriate assessments that assess these skills, so students aren’t getting help with maximizing their strengths and improving in key areas of need. My name is Kim Spudic with Ten Sigma and here are 5 important criteria to consider when evaluating functional transition skill assessments to use with your students: 1. Do they address the functional skills in the 3 key postsecondary goal areas - employment, Independent Living, and post-secondary training and education? 2. Do they contain specific criteria related to each skill that make it easy for all takers to understand what they are evaluating? 3. Do they make it easy for the entire IEP team, including the student whenever possible, to assess the student's strengths and needs and identify top priorities? 4. Is it easy to collect the “results” and to determine student strengths, needs, and priorities based on the responses of all the takers? 5. Is it easy to copy the information collected from the assessment and paste it into the Transition IEP and use it to write Present Levels, Postsecondary Goals, and Annual Goals? Our goal at Ten Sigma is to make it easy for Special Educators to use Transition skills assessments. With over 30 years of research and experience, we've created age-appropriate Transition assessments that do all 5 of the things I just explained. If you'd like to learn more about our transition surveys and see how to try them today for just $5, please visit http://TransitionSurveys.org Thank you!

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9 months ago
Most Special Educators do a good job of assessing  academics but they don't have an easy way to assess strengths and needs related functional  skills which are also called transition skills or soft skills. These skills are essential  for success in employment, independent living and post-secondary education and includes  skills like the ability to be organized, handle emotions appropriately and accepting  responsibility. Unfortunately most Special Educators are not using age-appropriate  assessm
ents that assess these skills so students aren't getting help with maximizing their  strengths and improving their key need areas. My name is Kim Spudic with Ten Sigma. Here are five  important criteria to consider when evaluating functionals transition assessments to use with  your students. Number one - Do they address the functional skills in the three key post-secondary  goal areas of employment, independent living and post-secondary Education and Training?  Number two - Do they contain spec
ific criteria related to each skill that make it easy  for takers to understand what they're evaluating? Number three - Do they make it easy for the entire  IEP team including the student whenever possible to assess the students strengths and needs  and identify top priorities? Number four - Is it easy to collect the results and determine the  students strengths needs and priorities based on the responses of all the takers? And number five  - Is it easy to copy the information collected from the
assessment and pasted it into the  transition IEP to use it to write present levels, post-secondary goals and annual goals? Our goal at  Ten Sigma is to make it easy for Special Educators to use transition skill assessments. With over 30  years of research and experience, we've created age-appropriate Tansition assessments that  do all five of the things I just explained. If you'd like to learn more about our Transition  surveys and see how to try them today for just $5, please visit Transition
Surveys.Org or click  the link below in the description. Thank you!

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