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    W'sMama, that's the direction we went last year, but even leaner: "That he's challenged." That's the yardstick I was using to measure. I didn't express concerns about specific outcomes as I was wiling to respect the professional and allow flexibility. I was pleased at the outcome, but he's in a magnet program that has subject acceleration built into it so ymmv.

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    I think I would say something like - I would like her to experience challenges with a good attitude and to attempt to read more advanced chapter books by the end of the year if it is within her capabilities to do so, attempt to work on multiplication, adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers (or whatever is next in line for math for her) by the end of the year, to continue to expand her knowledge in areas that interest her (planets, history, whatever)

    I have to say--these sound nice to me, too, but IME, they would turn off a teacher and are very, very unlikely to happen in K, unless you are going to some awesome little private school or something.

    I would have gone with some variation of this:

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    "I would like her to work on her social skills and to develop appropriate classroom behavior and homework habits. I am not concerned about her academic skills"

    with a dash of "learn to deal with frustration and cope with tasks that are challenging," too, as others have suggested. That's a good one, and one that teachers are able to "get" much better than "You need to teach my child how to multiply fractions." (It's good because if a teacher is really listening, she understands that it could apply to the child learning to zip a jacket as much as to anything academic.)

    I was asked to list goals on my DD's GIEP and I put "I want DD to get some things wrong next year." Hey, they asked me to put something.

    BTW, she is getting some stuff wrong this school year, mainly because they've started right out w/the 4th grade math book after never finishing the 3rd grade book last year (she's in third now). She's annoyed, but I'm secretly pleased, although her teacher does need to teach them the stuff they missed. 4th grade math seems to start to actually be real math.


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