10/27

I had an interesting conversation with Mr. Borton today. I asked him about his involvement with special education and the IEP process. He said that he spends a lot of time at the first of school year being part of IEP's and then again with evaluation during April and May. Inbetween there is only an occassional meeting in this regard. He said that he has seen everything from polite and cordial to very difficult in his IEP meetings depending on what the parents were like and how they felt about the process. He said that most of the accomodations he needs to do are taken care of through the correctives, which are a part of every unit he does anyway. He said that for the most part the special ed teachers don't ask him to do much more than this. He told me about some of his experience over the years with this and how some special ed teachers expected a great deal of individualized lesson and assignments from him, but most were satisfied with the correctives which were built in for the whole class. He said that many times the students would have difficulty in one area which he could specialize assessment for them, such as giving tests orally to students who had trouble reading and it didn't seem like this was too common or a big hassle to him in any way. I thought it was interesting that correctives could be used for special ed purposes.