Reference Guide
Planning Sheet
English Unit Plan
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Special Education Law
IDEA
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.
Infants and toddlers with disabilities (birth-2) and their families receive early intervention services under IDEA Part C. Children and youth (ages 3-21) receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.
Infants and toddlers with disabilities (birth-2) and their families receive early intervention services under IDEA Part C. Children and youth (ages 3-21) receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B.
ELL Resources
ESL for Students and Teachers
This site is designed for both people who are learning or teaching English as a second language. This site focuses on helping open up job opportunities and how to communicate in daily life. There are games, quizzes and categories that are well-organized and easily assecible.
ESL Mania
This site includes classroom materials, ESL teacher talk, idioms, grammar, accent reduction, business english, and much more for both students and teachers.
ESL Resources for Parents
Parents can help facilitate their students learning if they are involved with the student. This site offers ways that parents can get involved as well as giving teachers ways to reach out to parents.
Common Slang
This site tells the meaning of "Common American Slang" words. Slang is never something that I would have thought about when teaching ELL students, but I think it could be something fun or interesting to get ELLs involved in learning English.
30 ESL Resources
This is an article that has 30 different links to free online resources and activites for ESL teachers. Each resource has about a two sentence description.
This site is designed for both people who are learning or teaching English as a second language. This site focuses on helping open up job opportunities and how to communicate in daily life. There are games, quizzes and categories that are well-organized and easily assecible.
ESL Mania
This site includes classroom materials, ESL teacher talk, idioms, grammar, accent reduction, business english, and much more for both students and teachers.
ESL Resources for Parents
Parents can help facilitate their students learning if they are involved with the student. This site offers ways that parents can get involved as well as giving teachers ways to reach out to parents.
Common Slang
This site tells the meaning of "Common American Slang" words. Slang is never something that I would have thought about when teaching ELL students, but I think it could be something fun or interesting to get ELLs involved in learning English.
30 ESL Resources
This is an article that has 30 different links to free online resources and activites for ESL teachers. Each resource has about a two sentence description.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
IDEA's Exact Words and The Short Story
IDEA’s Exact Words
Again, let’s start with IDEA’s full requirement for identifying the supplementary aids and services a child will need and specifying them in his or her IEP. This appears at §300.320(a)(4) and stipulates that each child’s IEP must contain:
(4) A statement of the special education and related services and supplementary aids and services, based on peer-reviewed research to the extent practicable, to be provided to the child, or on behalf of the child, and a statement of the program modifications or supports for school personnel that will be provided to enable the child—
(i) To advance appropriately toward attaining the annual goals;
(ii) To be involved in and make progress in the general education curriculum in accordance with paragraph (a)(1) of this section, and to participate in extracurricular and other nonacademic activities; and
(iii) To be educated and participate with other children with disabilities and nondisabled children in the activities described in this section… [§300.320(a)(4)]
We’ve bolded the part of IDEA’s regulation that specifically mentions supplementary aids and services, because it’s important to see the context in which this term is used. It is that context, and IDEA’s own definition of supplementary aids and services, that will guide how a child’s IEP team considers what services the child needs and the detail with which the team specifies them in the IEP.Back to top
The Short Story on Supplementary Aids and Services
Supplementary aids and services are often critical elements in supporting the education of children with disabilities in regular classes and their participation in a range of another school activities. IDEA’s definition of this term (at §300.42)reads:
Supplementary aids and services means aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classes, other education-related settings, and in extracurricular and nonacademic settings, to enable children with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate …
Speaking practically, supplementary aids and services can be accommodations and modifications to the curriculum under study or the manner in which that content is presented or a child’s progress is measured. But that’s not all they are or can be. Supplementary aids and services can also include direct services and supports to the child, as well as support and training for staff who work with that child. That’s why determining what supplementary aids and services are appropriate for a particular child must be done on an individual basis.
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