Tuesday's Tip: Smarter Goal R- Relevant
GOALS MUST BE RELEVANT TO CURRICULUMS: General/Core, Modified, Expanded, & Functional
Goals must be relevant to Curriculms
General Education - Core Curriculum - Subject centered
Use of State Standards or Common Core Standards2
Modified Core Curriculum - Subject centered
Based on ability and priorities
Use of transitional IEP development
Expanded (Functional) Core Curriculum - Problem centered
Includes General or Modified Core Curriculum
Based on special skills needed due to a disability, i.e.:
Deafness
Sign language
Lip-reading
Blindness
Mobility training
Braille
Autism
Hidden/covert curriculum
Social cognition/judgment curriculum
Intellectual Disability
ADLs
Functional communication
Physical disability
Power mobility training
Behavioral
Pattern recognition, emotional regulation,
Skills that move from mimetic, parallel, automatic, rule, or habit-based to conscious, deliberate, and ToM analysis based.
To advance appropriately toward attaining the annual goals2.
[34 CFR §300.320(a)(4)(i)]
To be involved in and make progress in the general education curriculum
[34 CFR §300.320(a)(4)(ii)]
To participate in extracurricular and other nonacademic activities.
[34 CFR §300.320(a)(4)(ii)]
To be educated and participate with other children with disabilities and non-disabled children in extracurricular and other nonacademic activities.
[34 CFR §300.320(a)(4)(iii)]
Transition IEP for employment, post-secondary, or independent living when the child turns 16, or younger3, and updated annually thereafter. Don't forget that this includes leisure and recreation goals or the ability to independently: complete a job application, read the driver training manual, pass the driving test, read a map, complete ADLs, date safely, access their community, read a bus schedule, balance a checkbook, safely access the Internet to do research, ...)
It must include:
Appropriate measurable post-secondary goals based upon age appropriate transition assessments related to training, education, employment, and where appropriate, independent living skills [34 CFR §300.320(b)(1)]
The transition services (including courses of study) needed to assist the child in reaching those goals [34 CFR §300.320(b)(2)