Lately I have been working with a number of parents and schools during this busy time of year, when IEPs are needing to be revisited and plans for next year put in place for kids with disabilities (take a minute to read my posts about IEPs for some ideas of where to begin and important things to think about during this very necessary, and hopefully meaningful, process).
During the conversations I have been having lately, it dawned on me that when people are planning for next year and thinking about what did or didn’t work well this year, the use of paraprofessionals to support kids with disabilities is a central issue that can make or break a student’s success. IEPs that include paraprofessionals must consider quality professional development and the time to do that development effectively for paraprofessionals. Now is the time to start thinking about how that can look, and planning when it will happen. I have a great resource to offer.
karen Janowski on 13 Mar 10" * A Normal Curve, along with associated standard score conversions for a variety of metrics, that can be used to convey results to clients or professionals; * A Conversion Chart, which enables you to rapidly convert between T scores, z scores, percentiles, and standard scores; * An Age Calculator, which quickly generates an individual's exact age in years, months, and days after you input his or her birth date; * A Mental Age Determiner, which enables you to input an individual's chronological age and IQ and receive an estimate of his or her mental age; * A Stopwatch, which assists in the monitoring of timed assessments or performance tasks by enabling you to count down from a specified amount of time or count up from 00:00; and * A Compliancy Calculator, which helps you to comply with state and/or district mandates by quickly calculating the deadline for initial appointment set-up. "
