The IPP!!



Today we had yet another group meeting to discuss the collaborative IPP project that we have been working on. Although we are making great progress with the project, I can clearly see that coordinating an IPP team and ensuring that all members are on board with the decisions that are being made is a difficult task. This is not to say that I am having anything other then a positive experience with my group. But rather that it is difficult to work in everyone's opinion and still consider the best needs of the hypothetical student while creating the IPP. I think that so far the process of creating the IPP has been enlightening. I am learning alot about the effort that goes into ensuring that all students recieve a quality education that meets their needs. One observation and question that I have about the IPP process is the reasoning for limiting the number of goals to just three. I understand the importance of being concise and ensuring that the IPP is a workable document for all parties. Having said this, when reflecting on our finished IPP I felt that some of the student's areas of need were not being directly met through the goals that we set. This is not to say that the goals that we set were ineffective. Rather I felt that the student had so many weaknesses it was difficult to incorporate each of them into the three goals that we set. I think that in a real life situation I would have incorporated a few more goals into this specific student's IPP in order to better reach all of the students individual needs. Overall I am proud of the finished product that we created as a group and I sincerely feel that if it was used for Danny in a real life situation it would be instrumental in helping to further his education.