Walker Weekly Learning

A student interest inventory is a wonderful tool to use when creating education plans. They help you better understand your students, provides you with an opportunity to evaluate communication and retrieval of information skills, and discover extrinsic motivators!

Before meeting with a general education teacher to discuss a student, I always come prepared with a specific set of questions. These questions are used so that you can quickly get all of the information that you might need for an upcoming IEP. This was mostly used, when I was a special education teacher, used with teachers on a departmental schedule. I have also used this in the primary education as well. Questions: strengths, weaknesses, directions, prepared, and more!

I used this consultation form for general education teachers to fill out before writing an Initial IEP. This was a way to fully understand how the student was within the classroom other than my observations that were completed. Page 1: Place for teacher to fill out Page 2: examples of each category The teacher would fill it out and send it back to me through e-mail. This was a perfect tool to use, when your students are on a departmental schedule.

I have learned the hard way, when I first started writing IEP's, that you cannot trust an online IEP program to save your work. I created this draft template to help keep on track when I was writing an IEP, as well as make it easy to copy and pate it into the cells online. If the website ends up not saving your work or deleting things you have already written, this is perfect! It is great to have a back-up plan. Editable

I used this tool as a special education teacher, and with my tier 3 students as a general education teacher. This is a clear progress monitoring tool that is a good visual during conferences and for data talks. I was able to use this with NWEA content area goals, or whatever goal the student(s) were trying to reach.

Data Collection Forms - academic - attendance - behavior - ELL - NWEA testing - Strategies Used (successful / not successful)

I use this to prepare for parent-teacher conferences. I fill out part of it, so that I can cover the information on the sheet. Then I add notes to it as I talk to the parents. At the end, a parent signs the bottom of the sheet to show that we discussed the following information. Then I I make a copy for the parents to take home, and I keep the original for future reference.

I use the parent survey to get to know my students, parents, and have important contact information all in one location.