GOAL: By (date), when given up to (number) objects and cued “Count the (object)”, (student) will count the objects and match the correct number to the set in X/X trials over X weeks as measured by teacher charted data. I am going to share a goal you can use, the common core standard it’s aligned to, and a few activities to help you progress monitor each goal. In this post, I’m going to provide you with a meaningful IEP goals for the Kindergarten standards of Counting and Cardinality. What that means to me is that students are working towards mastery of part of the common core state standards. Now, aligning to standards doesn’t mean your students are going to master grade level standards. I started my deep dive with the math standards (math nerd over here) and I came up with 4 goals for Counting and Cardinality that you can use with your students, too! I’m planning on covering some Common Core Standards and helping you write some MEANINGFUL IEP goals that are ALIGNED to the standards. That’s when I started doing a lot of digging into what everything meant and I started to absolutely LOVE writing IEP goals. What did that even mean?! If my students were meeting grade level standards they wouldn’t need IEP goals. Then I found out I needed to align them to standards.

I don’t know about you, but when I started teaching writing IEP goals was hard.

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