1. What are the child’s specific, objective, and quantifiable goals?goals that are subjective and easy to ignore?What exactly does a complete sentence look like? How will that 80% threshold be determined — per assignment? Per day? Per semester? When unhelpful goals like this go unchallenged and continue to form part of a student’s IEP, they influence how the team perceives the child’s progress and could possibly set them back.
Ask the team to explain specifically how the goal will support your child’s needs and how it will be evaluated. Optimally, a good set of IEP goals will include standardized measures for determining progress. Your goal should be to clearly understand what constitutes sufficient progress on a particular IEP goal.should clearly identify who will measure your child’s progress on an IEP goal, and how frequently they will perform assessments.