Goals
Stage: Starting Point
Goal Information
Date: September 22, 2026Attainment Scale:
Starting Point:
Terms to address:
• Specially designed instruction
• Content SDI
• Methods SDI
• Instructional Delivery SDI
• Explicit teaching
• Systematic instruction
• Cumulative growth
Midpoint:
Terms to Add/Address:
• Concept mastery routines to build vocabulary and comprehension
• Advance and post organizers as instructional methods
Target Goal:
Professional Development Goal: By December 2026, Kyla will build a lexicon of 15 new terms and concepts to support professional dialogue and defensive practices in the provision of SDI as related to her implementation of structured literacy practices.
Stage: Starting Point
Goal Information
Date: September 22, 2026Attainment Scale:
Starting Point:
65% mastery on closed and open syllable coding.
Midpoint:
70% on multisyllabic word coding using learned syllable types
Target Goal:
By December 2026, Kyla will teach a student to decode multisyllabic words through explicit, systematic and cumulative instruction of decoding and spelling routines and will reinforce learning through practice with decodable texts to increase the student's decoding level from 65% to 90% on grade level materials.
Notes
T –
Module Completion:
Kyla has completed the knowledge sections of the course through module 9. She plans to finish Module 10 over the weekend. She has not completed any of the application assignments yet. We reviewed the three types of application submissions and the site resources available to support her through the process. Kyla will discuss
Kyla shared that she had missed the first class since she was not yet enrolled. Therefore, she had many questions about course requirements. I shared the course information on how to access previous sessions. She will review the video recording of the first course session to learn about the general course expectations and follow-up with any questions – either to me or the course instructor.
C-
Goal progress:
Professional – We discussed the terminology of SDI as indicated in the first goal increment. I will send her my blog post on these terms so that she can further related specially designed instruction and structured literacy components. https://newteachersuccess.com/blog/f/focused-series-2-access-to-the-general-education-curriculum?blogcategory=Special+Education
Student Learning: Kyla has not started instruction on her coding goal with her student.  She indicates that the materials she plans to use (Words Their Way) have just arrived. We discussed the importance of addressing the IEP goals of each individual child rather than programs. I stressed that it’s critical that she begin to work on this goal right away. She will address this matter with her supervising teacher (who is also in the course).
We also discussed how to use the SIM Concept Mastery Routine to provide systematic, explicit and cumulative instruction to foster deep vocabulary understanding, I sent her a hard copy of the manual last week. We will continue to discuss this process at future sessions.