Helpful+Hints+from+HCRHS+Teachers!

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Suggestions from the HCRHS Special Services Faculty
As a special education teacher, it is important to have a good system of documentation. Unfortunately, parents that you have not heard from all semester often appear at the end of the semester questioning grades, and questioning whether the IEP was properly followed. If you have kept a good record of your interactions with students and with parents, it will help prevent problems during these times. I like to keep a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with columns labeled "student name", "date", "block", and "comments". Then, whenever I speak to the student regarding an issue (lack of HW, an IEP item, coming for tutorial, personal issues, etc.) or a parent, I fill in the items below the headings, with a detailed explaination of what occured in the "comments" column. The beauty of this is that I can then filter the document at any time by student name to find out all the interactions I had with that one particular student, and I can even print the page about that one student to take to meetings. I also note on the document every time I send a progress report home or an e-mail home, plus conversations I have had with other staff members (CST members, counselors, etc.) regarding that student.