 I got an IEP for my son. I don't always know what to ask in those meetings. There's like five people in front of you There are things that happen all the time on a school campus. Oftentimes parents feel the depth of distance between a teacher and themselves or an administrator and themselves. Question formulation technique. We're going to practice it. We're going to go through the sequence We're going to go through all of the steps and we're going to work together to get that done So you have a strong sense of how to do this and you're going to see how simple it is and how powerful it is as well You've been a workshop for people in front of you stand there the expert Well, that's not happening tonight folks because you're going to be the experts and our time together You're going to be the most in thinking and most of the working There are some rules about producing questions. You're going to ask as many questions as you can Do not stop to judge discuss or answer any of the questions Write down every question exactly as it was stated and Change any statements into questions What might be difficult about following these rules? Your question focus this evening is Your child might be held back in the same grade for one more year three minutes, please Will there be a different teacher? What could you do to prevent it? When did they realize that this might be an option? Like, this might happen Can my child move ahead to the next grade with Supports or strategies the question focus is your child's school environment Questions if your question can be answered in one or two words. Yes. No, it's probably a closed-ended question We also have open-ended questions that require more explanation You're not going back in judging the question. You're going back running. You can see if it's closed-ended and Oh, it's open-ended This could even be a closed question to will they have the same teacher You Have your questions labeled as open or closed. Tell me some advantages of a closed-ended question What are some disadvantages of a closed-ended question what the advantages of asking open-ended questions would be What would then be some disadvantages of asking those open-ended questions? so would you please go through your list and Take one open-ended question change it to a closed and take one closed-ended question and change it to an open Please we could change what data do you have and say do you have data to support this and That would change it to a close So now you're gonna look over your list of questions And you're gonna choose the three questions that you consider the most important, but be prepared to share why you've made these a priority Because I think it determines how much attention your kid gets individualized So What can we do to prevent that from happening what I would like you to do now, please is discuss at your tables Why you chose those three? As your priority questions and where are they in your sequence are they number two or the number five or the number one? Beginning middle and end the most important when you consider if you look at a whole child What's been done to help our child so they're not in this So what the problem is? Yep, what's been done to try to alleviate it and then what can you do as a group? I feel like we started talking like a team until we were down here. Yeah Like up here. It was very you know, what can I do? Do I have a choice? Is it gonna help and then we get down here and all of a sudden it was like, all right, we've got a problem Now let's start talking like a team right. We're now going to develop a mini action plan You're gonna make a tea chart on the left side of the tea write the word information And on the right side write the word tasks We're going to take some time right now and we're going to share with a different group My child gets sick at school Okay, the information that we need is of that parents would need is is there a doctor or nurse That comes to see him when he's sick And also who can he get medicine is the people that are given the doctor's nurse or whoever gives him medicine And how do how do we obtain that information? Asking the office or the nurse or the teacher It's okay to go into Anything a meeting a discussion Kind of with an idea of the information that I'm looking for try not to go totally on emotion But make sure that you go through and ask those questions Before you walk in That both open and close questions are good questions depending on what You're looking for some people react with emotions So instead of that just kind of listen and assess the situation I think no question is simple For us for the tranquility of the mother And that your child is with the best well-being at school You can not only use it I mean in this setting in your child's education, but in like all aspects of my life Oftentimes parents feel the depth of distance between a teacher and themselves or an administrator and themselves and One thing that we want to do is to to shrink that That depth between us the walls and or lower those walls between us And I feel like the work that we did here tonight Helps parents to do exactly that it empowers them and then to come Ready set to go and to feel much more confident in working with us We cycle parents through these open houses in these parent conferences You literally have 15 minutes you better use it right, you know So if you have as a parent some mental preparation to come in to sit down and be prepared So real to really get at what you want. You're in great shape. This was a nice beginning piece to Really have this the relationship building take off. I Think if you can ask good questions then Then you you're more likely to get services. You're more likely to get Responses that actually help you make a difference in your child's education and life. I think it's important for parents To know how to do the correct questions because we are talking about the education of our children The future of our children I got an IEP for my son both of them and Now that I have some more information about asking questions I think I don't always know what to ask in those meetings There's like five people in front of you now. I feel more empowered to ask More detailed questions