Explanatory Notes

Classroom teachers are the key educators of all students and for those students who have special education needs.  They have a responsibility to help all students learn, and they work collaboratively with special education teachers, and others where appropriate, to achieve this goal.  Effective instruction begins with an understanding of students’ learning strengths and motivational needs, both collectively as a classroom unit and as individual students.   Education For All: The Expert Panel Report on Literacy and Numeracy Instruction for Students with Special Education Needs, Kindergarten to Gr. 6 (2005) describes this key step as “knowing your students.”  This theme is explored further and is key to the implementation of the Learning for All K-12 resource document scheduled for release late spring 2009.   

Below are a sequential series of four slide decks that build towards the implementation of the Learning for All K-12 resource document and can be used as resources to support school board professional learning.  These slide decks have been made  available to your school boards in PowerPoint format in order for you to use them wither in their entirety, in any order, or ‘cut and paste” to meet the needs of your audience(s).  All of the slide decks contain speaker notes and suggestions for using the information. 

We appreciate all feedback and encourage you to review and respond to the questions that are included at the bottom of this page.

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Purpose:
• Introduce Learning for All K – 12  and its link to Education for All K – 6;
• The theme, “Knowing Your Students’
• Provides a workshop framework to begin to unpack the theme, ‘Knowing Your Students’

Purpose:
This deck provides an overview of the process for developing effective IEPs. All of the components of the IEP are discussed. It also includes links to ministry resources as well as other related websites.

Purpose:
This deck takes the information garnered from the Provincial Individual Education Plan (IEP) Collaborative Review to share ways on how to improve IEPs. Special emphasis is placed on the program section of the IEP to demonstrate how to make the learning expectations in the IEP ‘measurable and observable’. Actual wording from school board IEPs is used to support discussion. The deck has a number of hands-on activities. It also includes links to ministry resources as well as other related websites.

Purpose:
This slide deck looks at the components of the IEP through the lens of collaboration. Each step in the development of the IEP has opportunities and challenges in collaborating with a number of individuals/groups in schools, school boards and beyond with families and the community. These opportunities and challenges are explored. It also includes links to ministry resources as well as other related websites.

The Ministry welcomes feedback which will be used to support continuous improvement of effective resources to support professional learning in school boards.

• What is your role (e.g., administrator, teacher, teachers' assistant)?
• Do you find the materials posted helpful? How will you incorporate the training materials into your work supporting IEP development and implementation?
• Does your school board have any IEP-related materials or practices that you would be willing to share with other school boards?
• Please share your suggestions on how the Ministry can further support professional learning in the area of special education.

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