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Building the new IEP at the lower secondary school

Observation tools, guide sheets and examples of completed sections

Flavio Fogarolo, Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 20x27cm

Pages: 208

ISBN: 9788859026464

Publication date: 01/09/2024

Suitable for: Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)


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The volume promotes a drafting of the Individualized Educational Plan that is truly functional and close to the needs of the students. It provides examples and materials to enable all lower secondary school teachers to fill out each of the 12 sections provided for by the ministerial IEP model, indicating for each of them references and links to the text The new IEP in a bio-psycho-social and ecological perspective, to Decree no. 182, to the Guidelines and to other regulatory, organizational aspects or points of attention, to delve deeper into each theme characterizing the different sections.


Series Presentation
Introduction
SECTION 1 – INFORMATION TABLE
● Instructions for filling out the information for school-family collaboration
● Self-determination form
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 2 – GENERAL ELEMENTS DERIVED FROM THE OPERATIONAL PROFILE
● ICF-based analysis sheets
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 3 – CONNECTION WITH THE INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
● Indications for monitoring the connection with the Individual Project, interventions and extracurricular activities
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 4 – OBSERVATIONS ON THE STUDENT
● Observation sheets in the 4 dimensions of the IEP and on behavior
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 5 – INTERVENTIONS IN THE 4 DIMENSIONS
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 6 – OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONTEXT: BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS
● Context observation sheets (barriers and facilitators)
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 7 – INTERVENTIONS ON THE CONTEXT
● Design sheets for interventions on the context
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 8 – INTERVENTIONS ON THE CURRICULAR PATH
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 9 – GENERAL ORGANIZATION AND USE OF RESOURCES
● Resource Activation and Monitoring Sheet
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 10 – CERTIFICATION OF SKILLS
● Skills identification sheets
SECTION 11 – FINAL VERIFICATION
● Indications on aspects related to the final test
● Examples of completed sections
SECTION 12 – PROVISIONAL IEP
● Instructions for completing the provisional IEP
Notes and observations



IEP – Individualized Educational Plan


What is the IEP

An Individualized Education Plan (or programme) is also known as an IEP. This is a plan or programme developed to ensure that a child with an identified disability or learning disorder receives specialized instruction and related services.

The IEP, therefore, is the tool for inclusive teaching: a personalized plan that promotes the scholastic inclusion of students with difficulties in all phases of the educational programme - from nursery school to secondary school. The main objective of the IEP is to provide these pupils with learning and development support that takes into account their specific needs and abilities.

Furthermore, the IEP is a fundamental tool that connects schools and families, and any health professionals involved.

What is indicated in the IEP:

  • The educational objectives that you intend to achieve;
  • The tools and activities that will be used to achieve the objectives;
  • The evaluation criteria;
  • The methods of collaboration between school, family and other extracurricular institutions.

IEP and Erickson… in Italy

With law 104 of 1992, the IEP began to play a key role within the school world. But it is with the Ministerial Decree of 2020 and the related Guidelines that the single national IEP model was introduced, and then updated with an Inter Ministerial Decree in 2023.

For years Erickson has been responsible for drafting the most complete and up-to-date materials to compile the national IEP model, and is therefore a point of reference for all teachers working in Italian schools. The Erickson volumes dedicated to the IEP constitute a complete work programme for all school levels. In Italy they have sold over 80,000 copies.

The key concepts of the IEP

BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL MODEL The IEP deals with the well-being of the student in all areas: physical, psychological and social.

OWG The Operational Working Group on inclusion, made up of the class council, manager, external experts from the healthcare world, parents and students.

FAMILY INVOLVEMENT With a view to school-family educational alliance and sharing of the educational programme.

LIFE-ADULTITY PROJECT Looking at the student from a broader perspective, towards a horizon that outlines their adult life.

ERICKSON EDITORIAL PROPOSALS FOR TEACHERS

Building the IEP The instructions for completing the sections required by the new IEP model

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IEP in practice Materials and concrete examples of activities to set up educational and didactic interventions in the class

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Inclusive IEP Practical activities to integrate the IEP with the subjects

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The guide to building an effective and inclusive IEP

IEP and inclusive classroom – What to do and what to avoid – For all school grades

Quick Guide for Teachers

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo, Benedetta Zagni

In the style of a Teacher Training notebook, this book - suitable for all school levels - proposes 15 operational strategies for building an inclusive IEP and class.

The first part is divided into 3 sections in which the fundamental points of a truly inclusive IEP integrated with class activities are outlined. The second part reflects on the educational co-responsibility between all parties of the Operational Working Group (OWG), and on giving ‘the pupil a voice’. While the third part outlines the features of an inclusive didactics based on forms of co-teaching between curricular and support teachers, and the activation of cooperative learning and peer tutoring.

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Building the new IEP

Building the new IEP for nursery school

Observation tools, guide cards and examples of completed sections

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

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Building the new IEP for primary school

Observation tools, guide cards and examples of completed sections

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

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Building the new IEP at lower secondary school

Observation tools, guide cards and examples of completed sections

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

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Building the new IEP at secondary school

Observation tools, guide cards and examples of completed sections

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

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IEP in practice

IEP in practice in nursery school

Operational materials and activity proposals

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

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IEP in practice in nursery school

Operational materials and activity proposals

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

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Read an excerpta from the book »

Building the new IEP at lower secondary school

Operational materials and activity proposals

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

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Read an excerpta from the book »

Building the new IEP at lower secondary school

Operational materials and activity proposals

Dario Ianes, Sofia Cramerotti, Flavio Fogarolo

Find out »

Read an excerpta from the book »

Inclusive IEP

Inclusive IEP at nursery school

Pair/group activities to integrate the fields of experience with the four dimensions of the IEP

Sofia Cramerotti, Dario Ianes, Flavio Fogarolo, Benedetta Zagni

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Inclusive IEP at primary school

Pair/group activities to integrate the fields of experience with the four dimensions of the IEP

Sofia Cramerotti, Dario Ianes, Flavio Fogarolo, Benedetta Zagni

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Inclusive IEP at lower secondary school

Pair/group activities to integrate the fields of experience with the four dimensions of the IEP

Sofia Cramerotti, Dario Ianes, Flavio Fogarolo, Benedetta Zagni

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Wallet Features:

150 pages of activities to complete for 10 different subjects

1 token economy poster for the class

Each activity offers a sheet to guide the teacher in the operational proposal

and one or more cards to be provided to students

5 plance di gioco

4 pages of stickers to put on the cards

The work team dedicated to the IEP

Sofia Cramerotti. Educational psychologist and pedagogist. For the Erickson Study Center she is responsible for the «Research and Development – Psychoeducational and didactic section». Author of various articles and books, she deals with individualized educational programmeming and Teacher Education. She carries out training, university teaching and consultancy activities on psycho-pedagogical and educational-didactic issues.

Dario Ianes. Full professor of inclusion pedagogy at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen and co-founder of the Erickson Study Center of Trento.

Flavio Fogarolo. Trainer, he deals with inclusive teaching. For several years he was the contact person for disability and SLD at the UST of Vicenza. He collaborates with Edizioni Centro Studi Erickson, and is the author of various publications on the design of educational games and compensatory materials.

Benedetta Zagni. Developmental and Educational Psychologist. Trainer and doctoral student in Psychological Sciences (DPSS – University of Padua) in collaboration with the Erickson Study Center. She deals with emotional well-being at school, cooperative learning, recognition and valorization of differences in the classroom.