My Saturday Soapbox series in November was focused on some of my “goal pet peeves.” You can check out my previous posts by clicking on the links below. I don’t know where to start when you write a goal like that. It’s an IEP not a grocery list Just because they got it wrong on […]
Saturday Soapbox: I don’t know where to start when you write a goal like that.
My Soapbox Saturdays were focused on goal pet peeves this November. Learning to write effective long term goals and objectives is difficult. Sometimes you write something that seems to make sense at the time, but when you go back to measure it or plan for it, it doesn’t work in the way that you thought. […]
Saturday soapbox: It’s an IEP not a grocery list.
My Soapbox Saturday this month has been focused on my goal pet peeves. Sometimes these are goals that I’ve inherited; sometimes these are goals that I’ve written without thinking things through. Ultimately, poorly written goals end up taking up more of my valuable time in treatment planning and documenting progress. I work in both outpatient […]
Saturday Soapbox: Just because they got it wrong on the test doesn’t mean it needs to be a goal!
Last week I started talking about some of my pet peeves regarding goal and objective writing. You can read about how I HATE it when goals are trying to measure too many things by clicking here. A second pet peeve of mine is when people write goals that teach to the test. Some tests do seem […]
Saturday Soapbox: Your objectives don’t have to measure 200 things.
Does anyone else have goal pet peeves? It’s difficult when you are taking over a new caseload and working off of someone else’s goals. Most of the goals are fantastic but sometimes they fall into my GOAL PENALTY BOX. Here are some of the goals I find impossible to work on-and some suggestions for making […]
