FIRST EDUCATIONAL TEAM MEETING - SAMPLE QUESTIONS

• What can the student actually see?

• What are the student's academic skills, abilities, and interests? Are there particular strengths, weakness, or concerns we need to attend to?

• Will there be an assistant? What will be his or her role?

• What information do we already have about this student? What more do we need?

• How independent is the student and how much assistance should we give?

• Who will be developing the individual education plan (IEP) and coordinating the student's whole program at our school?

• What are our short-term and long-term educational goals for this student?

• What special preparation do we need to make for classes, assignments, tests?

• What past strategies have been helpful? What does the student need?

• Who else is working with the student? How do we collaborate and when?

• Does the student have or need any special equipment? What does it do? Who maintains it? Is there backup? Is SET-BC involved?

• What happens when I, or the assistant, need to be away?

• What are the behavioural expectations? Are there specific discipline issues we need to attend to or strategies that would be useful?

• What do we need to be sensitive to or watch for? What else do we need to know to work more effectively?

• How best can we integrate this student into the physical school environment? What about safety, emergencies, recess, P.E., technology education? - Is this student registered with the Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired (PRCVI)? Are there materials we need to order from PRCVI? How is this done? Who will do it?

• How best can we integrate this student into our school community? What should be said to other students and staff? Do we need a buddy system?

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NOTES FROM FIRST EDUCATIONAL TEAM MEETING

NAME OF STUDENT	DATE
PEOPLE PRESENT

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Academic Background/Assessment Information:

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Functional Vision and Educational Implications:

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Learning Needs/Effective Strategies:

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Equipment/Special Materials: (What, Where, How, Who, When?)

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Specific Concerns or Questions:

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