Every IEP meeting needs an administrator, usually from sped, a general ed teacher, and a special ed teacher. If it's an eligibility meeting, you should have the evaluators, or persons qualified to interpret their findings, usually a school psych. The administrator is the person who signs off on the proposed IEP, 504, or district refusal to act as the district representative. They generally run the meeting. The teachers are supposed to represent the perspectives of general and special ed in terms of expectations, support services, student performance, effective accommodations and strategies, etc. Sometimes multiple roles are combined in one person, usually the administrator with either the sped teacher or school psych role. On rarer occasions, the general and special ed teacher may be the same person if he or she us dually certified and in an inclusion setting.
