All About I.E.P.'s

What is an IEP?

An Individual Education Plan (IEP) is a written plan that describes special education programs and/or services for a student. It is based on a student’s profile of strengths and areas for growth and outlines services and supports needed to ensure each student meets their academic needs for success. 

The IEP helps with monitoring and assessing a student’s progress, and is adjusted as the student’s areas for improvement change. It is reviewed and updated at every reporting period. 

How does an IEP help a student succeed academically?

Special education needs can be met through:

Accommodations: specialized teaching and assessment strategies that may include individualized equipment, technology and environmental adjustments as required for the student to access the curriculum and demonstrate learning. 

Accommodations allow a student to participate in learning without any changes to the knowledge and skills the student is expected to demonstrate. Students are expected to demonstrate all the overall expectations of the curriculum.

There are three Types of Accommodations:

1. Instructional – adjustment in teaching and assessment strategies (differentiated instruction);

2. Environmental – change, or support, to the physical environment of the classroom and/or school; and/or

3. Assessment – adjustment in assessment activities/methods/timing to enable the student to demonstrate learning.

Modifications: changes made in the age-appropriate, grade-level expectations for a subject or course to meet a student’s learning needs.

Modifications can be made by:

1. selecting expectations from a different grade level;

2. altering the number of the grade level expectations; and/or

3. altering the complexity of the grade level expectations.

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