Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) help you build students’ strengths by planning educational services based on their unique needs. To do that, each IEP includes a description of where a student is at, in terms of his or her academic achievement and functional performance. These are referred to as a student’s “present levels of performance.” The last section of the Present-levels Statement is “baseline data.” Baseline data should be used as the foundation for the student’s annual goals.

Our blog series by author, consultant and former special education director and teacher Carol Kosnitsky shares three steps on how you can collect baseline data and use it to set meaningful, measurable goals for each student.

Step 1: Identify a skill or behavior and make it observable.
Step 2: Find the right performance thermometer.
Step 3: Take the student’s performance temperature.

Check out the 8-part series on writing high quality IEPs from Carol Kosnitsky: [ Ссылка ]

Contact Carol Kosnitsky for more training at ckosnitsky@comcast.net

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