Thanks CFK for your reply. You encouraged me to call the gifted group at our district for input. When I talked with them I learned several things. The school told me they are limited in what can be a goal on the IP because there is a "pull down menu with choices". There weren't options for anything else except for these choices. When I called the district I was told these were examples for the school to see how to write goals and formulate them properly. However,they were not goals to use, but rather the goals should be customized for each child. I wonder why no one told our gifted representative that information? She has been there for at least 6 years and writing IP's for all the children.
I have another meeting set up with teacher for next week. We won't specifically address the IP again at this meeting as the gifted representative will not be in attendance. I will however share the information that the district lady explained to me was possible when creating IP for children. Giving a child an assessment to see where they currently are at so that they can move ahead to that point in the curriculum, using novels versus basal reading level books, etc. Hopefully this meeting will be a little more enlightening. I think it is important to get the teacher on board as she will be the one who will ultimately be implementing whatever plan is in the IP.
