Use a Life Skills Assessment to Monitor Student Growth

Helping our students make progress is a job that special educators do every day. Using a life skills assessment to monitor student progress can help throughout the school year. I use a life skills assessment each year with my students.

Here are a few reasons why! If you want a life skills guide, grab this freebie below!

IEP Goals and Assessment

Life Skills Assessment data tracking on a clipboard
Life Skills Assessment data tracking on a clipboard

Teachers create goals to support student growth. A student’s progress on a certain goal will be measured. The progress report reflects the student scores. In other words, it describes how the student is working towards this goal. Furthermore, the progress report may also give strategies for more improvement. 

However, this is only one area of growth used to monitor a student’s progress. However, we know students make progress in other areas outside of their IEP goals, too.

For example, I use the life skills assessment. Watch the video below to see inside this tool. Similarly, you can see there are various content areas addressed. Above all, students make progress in multiple ways and at their own paces!

What is included in the life skills assessment?

This basic skills special education assessment includes data sheets. Life Skills Assessments are perfect for any special education classroom. We all know that assessments help measure a student’s growth. This tool is great for students’ basic skills and independence. All you have to do is print out this binder of materials! EASY as 1-2-3. It is very easy to take the binder out and test individual students. This life skills assessment is scored using prompt hierarchy and builds independence.

Please click on the preview above to get a better look inside what is included!

  • Basic Concepts
  • Reading
  • Mathematics
  • Fine Motor 
  • Self-Care
  • Community 
  • Cooking 
  • Independence
  • Social Emotional

This assessment has everything you need to take yearly or quarterly data for a student in your classroom!

Life Skills Assessment Binder
Basic Life Skills Assessment Binder

Why do you need a special education assessment?

Finally, educators need assessments because students are complex learners. Special education teachers must know their strengths. Teachers also need to know their weaknesses. They do this before they can be effective with instruction.

One tool available to these teachers is special education assessment.

Furthermore, an assessment allows you to collect a wide variety of information. Assessments can lead to decisions related to: Instruction, Intervention, Classification and Placement.

Truly, I hope this tool can you track your student’s progress!

Take this one step further and use IEP Goal Bins to do progress monitoring!

Want to be more confident in your digital data collection? Click this post!

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