CED 527, Week 6

Tonight's class was a reiteration of what I am currently doing with my own school. While the process we went through in class was fairly extensive, it is minimal compared to the number of ways we analyzed data at school today. The process of analyzing data and implementing change based on that data is one that is central to my role as a special education teacher. Taking the additional analysis skills that we learned and knowledge of implementing change, I'm going to try to make some fundamental changes to my process for collecting IEP data this year. I need to be more systematic and find better common assessments to compare students to other students. I'm hoping that our district-wide PLC time will allow me to better collaborate with other resource teachers in the district to better collect and assess data. At the conclusion of today's data retreat, my principal commented that I did well at really disaggregating the data - I must have picked up some cues from this class! Thanks Kris!