Chapter 4
Ensuring Educational Progress
Learning Outcomes
• 4.1: Discuss the relationship of the nondiscriminatory evaluation to the IEP and its
components about student progress and identify how the NDE contributes to
understanding students’ potential for growth.
• 4.2: Describe how to determine a student’s present levels of performance and identify
Chapter Heading
Learning
Objectives
Activities in the MyLab with E-text
Additional Class
Activities
Meet Pablo Garcia
(Chapter Intro)
MyLab Vignette Video 4.1
Learning Standards
and the General
Education
Curriculum: What
All Students Should
Learn
4.1
MyLab Self-Check 4.1
MyLab Application Exercise 4.1
Lesson plan
accommodation
Classroom design
Assistive
technology
brochure
Nondiscriminatory
Evaluation:
Evaluating for
Disability, Levels of
Achievement, and
Potential for Growth
4.1
MyLab Video Example 4.1
MyLab Video Example 4.2
MyLab Video Example 4.3
MyLab Self-Check 4.1
MyLab Application Exercise 4.1
Developing an
Individualized
Education Program
to Ensure Progress
4.2
MyLab Video Example 4.4
MyLab Self-Check 4.2
MyLab Application Exercise 4.2
IEP goal activity
The Least Restrictive
Environment and
4.2
MyLab Video Example 4.5
MyLab Self-Check 4.2
Placement activity
Educational
Placement
MyLab Application Exercise 4.3
Inclusion and
Ensuring
Educational Progress
4.3
MyLab Video Example 4.6
MyLab Video Example 4.7
MyLab Self-Check 4.3
MyLab Application Exercise 4.3
Inclusion activity
Debate
Class Activities
Have the students brainstorm a lesson on how to make a peanut butter sandwich. Have the
students break into groups. Assign each group a component of Universal Design for Learning
(multiple means of representation, engagement and expression). Have each group make
accommodations for the lesson accordingly.
Give the students a classroom layout. Have them make necessary accommodations to the layout
and arrangement of the room to accommodate a child in a wheelchair.
Have students design a brochure for assistive technology. They may choose one disability
category to explore or you may assign some specific categories. Have the students include high,