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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Resources for State Assessments (Making the Best of It)

We are officially in assessment season and it is time to review some of those vital skills and concepts that are students will need on assessment day(s).
Checkout one of my latest additions to my TpT store.  This is a 14 pages mini booklet that prints four to a page.  This booklet focuses on multiplication and division number stories.  It highlights identifying the operational vocabulary when solving a number story.  State assessments are right around the corner (eek!) and this resource is a great way to help prepare your students.
 Best wishes to your students on those testing days!





Spring and IEPs

Happy Spring Everyone. 
It really is a great time of year now that I have completed the bulk of my IEPs for annual review.  This last month I was faced with the overwhelming challenge to write 18 IEPs and have 18 pre-IEP conferences with parents!  Since then, I have added 4 more students to my caseload so I have an additional four more IEPs to write by the end of June.  I guess writing four will be a walk in the park compared to the 18 I have already written. 
It can be a real challenge to keep all of the information organized when creating an IEP for each child that I work with.  I have created a template that helps me stay organized with all of the testing, data, etc. that I am collecting to write these documents.  My template is very simple but it really does help me stay organized to some degree. 
Let me know what you think.