What to ask for on IEP for reports home?

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Registered: 06-09-2005
What to ask for on IEP for reports home?
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Fri, 07-28-2006 - 5:20pm
I am trying to get ideas for our fall IEP meeting for my rising AS 3rd grader. I was not happy with the lack of info from his teacher last year (he attended the school since spring break.) I realized I need to specifically ask in the IEP for reports home. Ds has never been a behaviour problem, but he does have problems paying attention in class. I don't think that I need detailed info about his behavior more than once every week or two, but I do need details about classwork. DS never remembers homework or other info that is told to the class which needs to be relayed to the parents. I am trying to get some ideas about what to ask for that wouldn't excessively burden the teacher but would allow me to know what the class is doing day to day. I homeschooled ds up since K so I am very willing to work with him at home and I think that for his retention difficulties it would help to pre- and post- teach him material for his retetion. Ideas about requesting info on IEPs? I was thinking: 1) daily (or weekly) brief description of topics covered in each subject 2) daily homework assignment description sent home by teacher 3) weekly behaviour report. Is this asking too much?
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Registered: 11-07-2004
Sun, 07-30-2006 - 9:39pm

While we haven't done an IEP yet (just starting the process), I don't think what you are asking for is unreasonable at all. Our son wasn't diagnosed until school was over. His teacher last year was a gem! She emailed me any problems they were having so we could reinforce at home. All students in her class had a planner that came home with them everyday that had the homework assignments on it and behavior section as well. We were required to sign each day. She would write any pertinent comments in there or email me them. I would email her to check in and see how he was doing. She always checked her email in the morning, at nap time and before leaving school, so I never felt out of the loop. You know she even emailed us this summer to see how we were doing. I told her about his diagnosis (had discussed that I thought this what was going on and she had talked to his Dr during school). I told her we were seeing another Dr and she sent me her home number and address in case this Dr wanted to talk to her too.

I look at this way, they are there to teach my child and part of that job includes keeping me informed.

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Registered: 05-02-2003
Tue, 08-01-2006 - 4:59pm
You are not asking for too much. I would say asking for a weekly report and a daily homework pad would be fine. See if there is another child or teacher's aide that can help him pack up at the end of the day. We did this for Everett in 3rd grade and it worked wonders. Everett also has trouble remembering to tell me about important information that should be relayed on to me and remembering his homework. I found that having a checklist of things that needs to be done at the end of the day taped to his desk worked great. The end of the day can be so chaotic that often it is very confusing and the checklist provides a great way for them to see what they need to do. Once the checklist was in place things improved significantly. We would also have checklists at home detailing in time blocks of what needed to be done and when he has free time. The important info should really be in a written form because all kids have a tendancy to get things mixed up.
It can depend on the teacher also. Some teachers thought sending home weekly reports was great and some thought that I was being over bearing. I never had it included in his IEP at the time but for you I would definately include it that way the teacher has to do it.