Tuesday, March 27, 2007

The IEP Meeting

Tomorrow, I will be leading my first IEP meeting. What's an IEP? IEP stands for Individualized Education Program, which is used to track and manage educational progress for students with learning disabilities. The IEP meeting is a meeting with the student's parents, school administration, teacher(s), psychologist and other staff. The meetings can be long and an enormous amount of paper work is passed around to review, read, and sign.

I am a little nervous about leading the meeting as this is my first official school meeting and this is the initial review of testing data for a student's parents. I have lead meetings with CIOs and CFOs of major companies, but I perceive a difference between corporate bigwigs and parents. I guess you never know how a meeting will go when you are sharing with parents that their student performs tasks slowly.

I am hopeful that the meeting will go well. I'll report more following the meeting.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Welcome to Highs and Lows

Highs and Lows is an attempt for me to capture, share and remember the high points and low points of student teaching over the next 5 weeks. I have been student teaching for 10 weeks now and have learned many lessons and had quite a few laughs as well.

Hopefully, you will check in on this blog from time to time to see what's going on in the life a student teacher.