Areas for consideration when
developing the IEP
Transitions
Planning for the impact on schooling of:
• Changing care placement
• Beginning preschool / school
• Changing schools
• Changing classes, subjects
• Moving from one year level to another
• Moving to an alternative education program
• Re-integration into mainstream program
• Leaving school
• Leaving care
Engagement at school
Planning to optimize:
• Attendance
• Positive behaviour development
• Relationships with adults
• Calming strategies
• Links to peer groups
• Co-curricula opportunities / interests
Social and Emotional Wellbeing
Planning to:
• Provide environment translators: mentors / counsellors / cultural and learning support
• Enable involvement with other students
• Arrange Health/psychological support programs
• Facilitate skill development programs
• Address negative stereotyping
• Address bullying and harassment
Learning Program
Planning to establish:
• Goals for learning areas
• Learning support program
• Homework support
• Areas for intervention: literacy, numeracy, personal organization, research skills
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills and access
Beyond School – Learning and Earning
Planning for:
• Identification of possible pathways
• SACE completion
• Flexible Learning Options / Innovative Community Action Networks
• Making links with the Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
• Part time schooling beyond compulsion
• Work and study options
IEP reviews
Additional considerations:
• Appropriateness of goals
• Targets achieved
• Targets acknowledged
• Reasons for successes
• Areas for development
1 | Individual education plan [IEP] for children and young people under the guardianship of the Minister • Department for Education and Child Development