IEP Self-Paced Course

This collection of self-paced courses provides foundational information about:

1.  Developing and Implementing High-Quality Individualized Education Programs (IEP)

2. Understanding the basics of IDEA 

3. Meeting procedural, substantive, and implementation requirements and ensuring that students with disabilities have access to free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment as outlined by IDEA,

4.  Highlights specific components of the IEP (e.g., goals, present levels statement, services and aids).​ 

Evidence-Based Practices Course

This collection of self-paced courses provides:

1. High-leverage practices that research has shown support the implementation of high-quality instructional programming

2. Planning: How to set meaningful learning targets using individualized education program (IEP) goals and/or grade-level standards; identify learning targets to set a clear sequence for instruction; and establish clear lesson objectives with aligned practice opportunities.

3. Delivering Instruction: Describe how to model, provide guided and independent practice opportunities, and use supporting practices within modeling and practice.

4.  Reviewing and Intensifying: Identify when to intensify instruction or intervention to support the development and implementation of specially designed instruction.

5. Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies: Define executive functioning, Identify examples of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, differentiation and explicit teaching

Introduction to Special Education Law 

This collection of self-paced courses covers the legal foundations of laws supporting students with disabilities. The collection includes courses that explain the difference between civil rights and funding laws, different laws impacting students with disabilities including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the relationship between state and federal laws, primary sources of the law in the United States, the impact of the role and levels of the adjudicative source of law, the history of IDEA, the major parts of IDEA, and more. 

IEP Team Member Roles and Responsibilities 

This course provides a review of the team members responsible for collaboratively developing the students individualized education program (IEP) as outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and explains their roles on the IEP Team. This module also reviews some additional considerations for team membership and engagement in the IEP development process.