Linking IEP Goals to the General Education Curriculum:

Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities in Inclusive Settings

Presented by Dr. Pam Hunt

March 9, 2012                    9am-4pm
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Presentation Outline

Linking IEP Goals to the General  Education Curriculum

• An ecological curricular framework

• Reconciling an ecological curricular framework focusing on quality of life outcomes with the development and instruction of standards-based academic goals

                Six-step process:

(1) Identify quality of life goal areas through family and student-centered assessment activities;

(2) Identify priority, grade-level content standards from state standards frameworks;

(3) Identify the “critical function” of each selected standards in terms of enriching students’ lives;

(4) Identify meaningful, individualized performance outcomes associated with the critical function of selected standards that reflect the student’s quality of life goal areas and current level of symbol use;

(5) Generate the IEP goals and objectives to address the performance outcomes;

(6) Teach these skills within and across meaningful activities that provide context and motivation and that are relevant to the student’s daily life.

•  Planning instruction of IEP goals in the context of general education lessons and other classroom and school activities

--teaching skills in multiple ways during the school day

--Incorporating authentic tasks into instruction

--incorporating student-directed activities into instruction

--embedding academic skills into the instruction of functional routines and activities at home, school, and community settings

• Writing individualized, meaningful, and measurable goals

• Practical and effective approaches to documenting student progress on IEP goals

Dr. Hunt is a professor in the Department of Special Education at San Francisco State University, Coordinator of the Moderate/Severe Disabilities Area Programs, and instructor for core methods courses in the education of learners who experience moderate to severe disabilities. She also serves as Director of the California Research Institute on the Inclusion of Students with Significant Disabilities, a university research and service organization composed of externally funded research, technical assistance, and personnel preparation projects. Dr. Hunt has directed multiple federally sponsored research projects investigating effective strategies to increase the communicative and social competence of students who experience significant disabilities, inclusive educational programs and practices, social supports for students with moderate to severe disabilities who are full-time members of general education classrooms, and, most recently, collaborative teaming to support students with and without disabilities in general education classrooms. She has a demonstrated publication record of research in each of these areas and has presented her research studies at numerous national and state educational conferences. Finally, she has provided extensive consultation to school districts, educational teams, and families in local school districts on strategies to develop effective educational programs for students with significant disabilities.

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