Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Quebec Releases Interactive IEP Tool

The Quebec Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sport (MELS) has released an interactive IEP (Individualized Educational Plan) tool that can be used in any school in Quebec.

IEPs are used to help describe and organize the support measures and personalized follow-up that are necessary to help students with special needs progress in their schooling and to foster their success.

The benefits of using this standardized IEP according to MELS, include

  • a common understanding (especially by parents) of the individualized education plan
  • closer cooperation among personnel
  • a focus on the process and the student's needs
  • better preparation of personnel
  • rapid transfer of information between school boards
  • easier management of a school's individualized education plans
  • archiving of and ready access to any individualized education plans developed for a given student
  • updating of common definitions of the needs, capacities and objectives recorded in the individualized education plan
Many of those points seems to describe simply the benefits of IEPs.

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