-Progress monitoring--- “teachers must continue to monitor progress with assessment in order to meet IEP requirements and evaluate the impact of the instruction on student performance.”

- “Screening tools are designed to help teachers determine which students need interventions to help them succeed in academic areas.”  Teachers then use this information to guide their instruction.

-Teachers are responsible for giving assessments over the academic skills that are at grade-level and to monitor the IEP goals.  This assesses the students learning and judges if learning is taking place.  This also enables the teachers to scaffold the materials being taught.  They can also create interventions or one-on-one help if needed.

- A comprehensive assessment is given by the Special Education teacher to determine eligibility of a child. 

"accurately assess the areas affected by the suspected disability, administered by a trained professional, and administered in a way that is consistent with standard procedures identified by the test publishers; they cannot be biased in any way “

-The special education teacher creates the goals and objectives for a student after analyzing the interventions that took place in the classroom to create an IEP.

- They hold annual and 3 year re-evaluations for students with and IEP, that includes the teachers and parents.

-There is a 60 day time frame that a special education teacher must follow when evaluating a student that has been referred.

-They provide accommodations to “Students with disabilities participate in state and district testing with accommodations permitted as necessary.”