Using IEP Bins to Collect Data

My classroom is fast-paced and moves quickly. If I don’t have things ready prior, we won’t get them done in the moment. IEP data was becoming increasingly harder for me to collect. I needed to have the materials needed ready at my fingertips. That is when I decided to bring back IEP bins. An IEP bin is a bin filled with materials necessary to run IEP goals.

 

The first thing that I did is I went through every IEP I had to determine what goals would be good for the bin. I don’t have a bin for every student. Some of my students have goals that don’t need tangible materials. For my student that just has behavior, communication, reading, and language arts goals-that data is collected naturally during a lesson.

I typically don’t include materials for speech or behavior. Those goals typically don’t need a tangible item. Again, communication and behavior data is just captured throughout the day. When I looked at each goal I considered if I needed to present the child with something to work on the goal (i.e. giving them a patterning board to work on a pattern goal) and wrote it on a list. Once I knew all the materials I needed to run each goal, I could start assembling materials. I also got a bin for each student. I love these bins from Costco because they are latch closed, making it easier to transport without worrying about materials falling out. Here is a similar type of box!

 

 

 

I included pictures of the types of materials I include in the bins with links to TPT or Amazon. I also included what types of goals might be on an IEP that would need these materials.

Some of my old students have higher level math goals. Some of the goals include completing money exchanges, adding fractions, receptively identifying directional concepts and differentiating between more and less. I grabbed the fraction task cards and more than/less than cards from Promoting Success, and the prepositional concepts cards are in my store!

 

We work on a variety of reading skills in my classroom. I have students with decoding goals, students with inferencing goals and students with goals to match word to picture. You can grab the decoding cards and the word to picture mats in my store. I got the inferencing stories from JamieP123 and The Autism Helper.

 

We also work on sequencing, retelling and -wh questions. These sequence boards will be coming out as an email exclusive in November-sign up now to make sure you get them! I also love using tangible items to help students identify the main idea. I bought these animals on Amazon and paired them with my zoo animals easy readers to work on this goal.

 

Ever since I started the VB MAPP, I have loved writing feature function and class goals. I made these sorting strips to help me run the goal in my classroom! I also use my feature, function and class fluency cards!

 

Money identification goals (both the name and value of coins and bills), as well as fact fluency goals, are common for some of my older students. I use real coin and coin clipart for the money goal. For fact fluency, I use packs from Amazon. Here are great packs for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

 

 

Some of my students are working on extending patterns, and some need visuals to work on addition and subtraction. Ashley from Spectacular Days, Kayla from My Special Learners and Gabrielle from Teaching Special Thinkers all have awesome file folder packs!

 

Matching and sorting goals are super common in my classroom! I always turn to Erin from You-Aut-A-Know for matching items. She has identical and unidentical sets that I use all of the time! I use my own classification set for sorting goals!

I take all of my IEP bin data through google forms. You can read more about how I collect data digitally here. Are you more of an auditory learner? You can see me go through the bins on my Youtube channel!

We run IEP bins every morning. My students rotate between doing independent morning work and working on the IEP bin with me or an assistant. I try and rotate out tasks at least once a month to make sure students are generalizing the skill.

If you made it this far, congrats!! I have a freebie for you here. It is a set of adjective picture cards, perfect for students identifying pictures based on adjectives like cold, tired and sticky.

We are collecting more data than ever-I love love love this system! I hope this post helped you get ideas on how to set this system up in your classroom!