Michigan Association of Administrators of Special Education

Urban Special Education Administrators (CoP) / April 2018

Type: Open Committee

Focus Areas: Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)

 

Upcoming dates or events to share with general membership

MAASE Meeting- June 13th at noon

Hot Topics

UCoP discussed the use of appropriate interventions that meet the criteria for SDI.

  • Some districts can’t afford to purchase intervention programs and believe they might not be meeting the needs of their students.
  • Other districts are using chunking, scaffolding, and other good instructional strategies to support students with disabilities and believe this is enough to help a student progress towards their goals.
  • It is difficult to be consistent with interventions when students are absent on a regular basis. District believes interventions not as beneficial as they could be.
  • Teachers need to build relationships with their students in order to make in roads with them.  Students don’t trust their teachers and believe they are treated differently because they have a disability.