How do I get the most out of an IEP meeting?
My wife’s a teacher, so I know IEP stands for Individual Education Plan or something, but schools love their acronyms and they aren’t universal. So for the other answerers, an IEP is a personalized curriculum, or a way of altering the current curriculum, to meet the needs of a student (a blind child would need worksheets read to them, dyslexic might need additional time or help with written assignments, etc). I’ll ask my wife when I get home if there’s something you should specifically discuss. Depending on the number of IEPs the teacher has to deal with, they can be less receptive or enthusiastic about the idea, since it can literally double their work since they have to write two or three or more lesson plans a day. This will be more of an issue in later grades, with teachers teaching 6-7 classes of 20-30 children. My wife doesn’t have this problem currently because she is an art teacher and re-reading instructions is a mainstay anyway because the average student doesn’t listen in ou
