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Report Card at the regular reporting periods. (Some school boards include a section for reporting on the achievement of alternative expectations in the IEP itself.)
annual program goals. Statements on the Individual Education Plan (IEP) describing what a student can reasonably be expected to accomplish by the end of the school year in a particular subject, course, or skill area. Annual goals must be developed if the student’s learning expectations are modified from the curriculum expectations for a particular subject or course, or if the student’s learning expectations are alternative learning expectations.
applied behaviour analysis (ABA). An effective instructional approach that uses methods based on scientific principles of learning and behaviour to build useful repertoires of behaviour and reduce problematic ones. For example, ABA methods can help a student to develop positive behaviours, learn new skills, and transfer a positive behaviour or response from one situation to another.
assessment. The process of gathering information that accurately reflects how well a student is achieving the curriculum expectations in a subject or course and/or the learning expectations identified in the student’s IEP. The primary purpose of assessment is to improve student learning. Assessment for the purpose of improving student learning is seen as both “assessment for learning” and “assessment as learning”. Evaluation of student learning
is based on “assessment of learning” that provides evidence of student achievement at strategic times throughout the grade/course/program, often at the end of a period of learning.
community agency. An agency that may be not-for-profit or funded by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services or the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The mandate of such an agency includes the provision of services or support for preschool children with special needs (e.g.,
the Preschool Speech and Language Program, Infant Hearing Program, Ontario Autism Program).
current (baseline) level of achievement. Information on the IEP summa- rizing the student’s current level of achievement in each of the subjects, courses, or skill areas to which the IEP applies. This information serves as a baseline against which the student’s progress towards achievement of his or her learning expectations and annual goals in each subject, course, or skill area will be measured.