Presentation Type
Poster
Full Name of Faculty Mentor
Nicole Uphold, Special Education
Major
Special Education
Presentation Abstract
This study taught student teacher interns on how to support students and parents to participate in Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings. While previous research has determined students with disabilities can learn the skills needed to participate in their IEP meetings, researchers suggested that educators need training on how to conduct IEP meetings in which students and parents will be active participants (Chandroo et al., 2018; Sanderson & Goldman, 2021). This study focused on teaching teachers to build relationships with parents and students to create a level of comfortability so that when in an IEP meeting, everyone has a comfortable environment to speak in. It also shows how language influences the level of participation of parents and students in IEP meetings. A curriculum was developed to train the educators how to teach students and parents about the IEP meeting, and how to structure an IEP meeting so students and parents can be active participants. A pretest posttest design was used to measure a change in student teacher interns’ knowledge of IEP meetings and student/parent engagement strategies. I will talk about the curriculum, the research design, and future plans to measure if the student teacher interns implemented the strategies learned during their first year of teaching.
Start Date
12-4-2023 4:00 PM
End Date
12-4-2023 6:00 PM
Disciplines
Special Education and Teaching
Recommended Citation
Daly, Delaney, "Let's Get Involved" (2023). Undergraduate Research Competition. 89.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/ugrc/2023/fullconference/89
Included in
Let's Get Involved
This study taught student teacher interns on how to support students and parents to participate in Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings. While previous research has determined students with disabilities can learn the skills needed to participate in their IEP meetings, researchers suggested that educators need training on how to conduct IEP meetings in which students and parents will be active participants (Chandroo et al., 2018; Sanderson & Goldman, 2021). This study focused on teaching teachers to build relationships with parents and students to create a level of comfortability so that when in an IEP meeting, everyone has a comfortable environment to speak in. It also shows how language influences the level of participation of parents and students in IEP meetings. A curriculum was developed to train the educators how to teach students and parents about the IEP meeting, and how to structure an IEP meeting so students and parents can be active participants. A pretest posttest design was used to measure a change in student teacher interns’ knowledge of IEP meetings and student/parent engagement strategies. I will talk about the curriculum, the research design, and future plans to measure if the student teacher interns implemented the strategies learned during their first year of teaching.