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Your child’s annual IEP goals should address the skills that need support due to learning and thinking differences. Effective IEP goals are strengths-based and SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and time-bound.
Annual Program Goals – Students with Alternative Programs. For elementary and secondary students who have alternative programs, annual program goals provide a summary of the alternative expectations.
Measurable annual goals, including benchmarks or short-term objectives, are critical to the strategic planning process used to develop and implement the IEP for each child with a disability.
Competencies represent a combination of skills, processes, behaviours and habits of mind, and there are two kinds. Core Competencies focus on the development of Personal, Social and Intellectual skills and attributes that allow students to engage in deep, life-long learning.
Measurable annual goals are developed by the IEP team to address the special education needs outlined in the child’s evaluation report and present levels of academic achievement and functional performance (PLAAFP) statement.
IEPs must include measurable academic and functional annual goals (IDEA §300.320). These goals serve two purposes, both of which are responses to disability-related challenges students face. The first purpose is to enable students to access and make progress in the general education curriculum.
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What are annual IEP goals? Annual IEP goals are statements that describe what knowledge, skills and/or behaviors a student is expected to achieve within the year the IEP will be in effect. The IEP must include measurable annual goals consistent with the student’s needs and abilities, as identified in the student’s present levels of performance.
