What'san IEP? Anyone know?

[joelalie]

DS#1's teacher stopped me this morning as I was taking DD to her classroom. She said that DS had done 'not that badly' in his Year 4 SATS which is good news BTW as DS is struggling atm (also a surprise as I didn't know he was doing them anyway ). Apparently she told him he was 'a little so and so' for doing so much better in the SATs than he does in class . But he still needs to get his act together as he is far too laidback in class so she has issued a group IEP for several children to highlight issues to his next teacher. In too much of a hurry to ask for more details but does anyone know what an IEP is? (Could be IPE???)

Individual Education Plan. It sets out targets for your child to work towards.

Individual Education PLan so will highlight key issues/areas for improvement and how these will be addressed. You should get a copy but ask if you dont.

It's an Individual (I think) Education Plan (I think) (why am I answering this Q when I don't know ) - to detail what extra help they need.

Should be a GEP in this instance if they existed I suppose.

Thanks everyone!

Yes I'm going to be sent a copy apparently so the teacher said. I was just nodding and smiling at this point as DD wanted to get to the classroom and DS#2 was trying to escape

I think she mentioned the group thing to ensure that I didn't worry that DS was being singled out.

Now I just have to wonder what 'not too bad' actually means????

Quite common for a group IEP to be written. Although the copy you get will only have your dc name on it. Just means that a targeted group will have to reach target a) b) and c) by a certain time.

IEPs should be dated and have a review date in them... Usually termly, when teacher/SENCO/parent (although they don't usualyy turn up where I work) goes through each target and decides if it has been met or not. It is then decided if they need a new IEP or not. If yes then new targets and dates will be set....