IEM Curriculum Policy
Policy
According to the
school charter, IEM school students must use curriculum that will enable the
students to meet the California state standards framework. The curriculum does not need to be state
aligned in itself, but the standards must all be
covered with the parent/ES chosen educational plan in preparation for the
annual state mandated assessments.
Intervention definition
for students
Students whose
test results show them to be below grade level on the Scantron
Edperformance assessment, at “basic” or below on the
STAR/CST assessments, and/or who receive a “fail” on either of the CAHSEE test
sections may be in need of intervention help from the ES.
Intervention Suggestions
The following is a list of intervention helps
that may be useful in working with your students:
- Additional Scantron Ed
performance tests can be taken at any time during the year to determine
student expectation of performance on the upcoming assessments. Standards specific lessons are available
for printing from the website after the test to relearn the standards that
have not been mastered.
- Order Starline Press units for
English, math, science and/or social studies for identified areas of
weakness, as they come in small booklets for each subject area and grade
level, and material to cover only the needed standards can be ordered.
- Writing prompts & rubrics are available on the
website to be given to every family to prepare for the 4th and
7th grade writing tests and the CAHSEE.
- The curriculum area
of the website has other resources that may be helpful for your students
in their area of weakness (links to websites, other curriculum suggestions,
specific intervention suggestions)
Procedure
ESs will review each of their student’s
STAR/CAHSEE scores and/or Scantron edperformance online assessment results prior to the first
learning record meeting each school year.
At the first LR meeting, the assessment scores
and their meaning will be discussed with the parent and interventions as
appropriate will be presented for the subject areas where they are needed.
ESs will order or provide any requested intervention
tools to the family ASAP.