Can I use the Styer-Fitzgerald curriculum to write my IEP goals?
A. The Student Assessment allows you to determine each student’s Present Levels of Performance (PLOPS), in other words, where the student is in a particular skill area. The present levels of performance guide, found in each student’s assessment booklet, indicates what level the student is at currently. Then each skill area of the assessment and curriculum provides a flow chart that tells you what skills to teach, in other words, what the student’s IEP goals will be. Q. How is the assessment tied to the Functional Academics curriculum? A. Each section that is assessed is linked to at least one, often a few, subject areas in the curriculum that are designed to address the deficits identified by the assessment. Each section of the assessment and curriculum include a flow chart that directs you to the appropriate skill in the sequence to teach. For instance, if your student can count by 1’s to 10 in the assessment, the flow chart directs you to teach Money Management B, which is teaching t
