Progress monitoring

I recently received an email asking, "What is the expectation for progress monitoring?" Good questions, - if you have those thoughts, so do others, so I will address it in my blog!

The expectation is to try progress monitoring with ONE child and bring the form back to our Jan. meeting with Gloria. After that, you can decide if it's a helpful and meaningful way to collect data and show progress. Progress monitoring is not appropriate for every child or every goal; it can be used when a child already has a skill and you want to increase or decrease the skill/behavior. It often works well to use as a "team approach" when several are working together and supporting each other.

Gloria will also introduce/(review for some)mastery monitoring - in some cases, that works better for collecting data and showing progress for certain children. And rubrics will be addressed as well. (Don’t' worry, we don't intend to throw the baby out with the bath water!)

You are NOT being forced into doing anything, but rather, given "more tools" to use -as each child is different and we know we must have data to make decisions. Remember, some people in our dept. have been on the job less than 5 years, and they really need to know what's all available and how to use it. Hope this helps!