Computerized management system for maintaining compliance with educational guidelines for special and regular education students

• US 20030113697A1
• Filed: 08/14/2001
• Published: 06/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gary Plescia
• Original Assignee: Gary Plescia
• Inventors: Plescia, Gary
• Application Number:
  US09/929,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20030113697A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/322
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

The system of the present invention is a comprehensive aid to special education within school districts to facilitate the managing, monitoring and assessing of their special education program on an ongoing basis by demonstrating levels of compliance with guidelines set forth by Federal and State administrative agencies. This system provides a computerized database for individually managing special education students and monitoring their progress while automatically rendering regular reports and evaluation while also designing and updating the individual education plans for each student as well as continually upgrading lesson plans in accordance with all federal mandates and state regulations.

Claims

1. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special and regular education students, the method comprising the steps of:

A. providing a computerized database for electronically recording educational information and unique identification information on a number of different special education students;

B. initially evaluating a particular student to determine whether special education needs are present;

C. if special education is not needed, then terminate present student analysis and establish a reminder scheduled for re-evaluating the student in the future;

D. if special education is needed, then prepare an individual education plan customized for the particular student'"'"'s customized benchmarks and objectives;

E. establishing a unique record in the computerized database for the particular student with special education needs;

F. entering unique identification criteria for the particular student to the student'"'"'s record in the database;

G. entering a full description of the individual education plan prepared for a particular student into the student'"'"'s record in the database;

H. evaluating instructional criteria and instructional materials needed in order to facilitate the student in meeting the currently established benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan;

I creating a specific lesson plan for the student correlated to the instructional criteria and the instructional materials;

J. choosing specific instructional materials based on current lesson plan;

K. placing the student with a specific teaching group of students currently working on similar lessons plans;

L. establishing criteria for evaluating progress of student toward meeting the objectives and benchmarks of individual educational plan;

M. recording student evaluation and test results to determine student mastery level and educational progress toward meeting of benchmarks and objectives of individual education plan;

N. recording student'"'"'s mastery level as indicated by teacher subsequent to one or more lessons based on evaluative criteria;

O. comparing student'"'"'s mastery level to individual education plan benchmarks and objectives;

P. determining whether student has further need for any special education;

Q. if no, render final report of completion of successful special education effort and establish time period of re-evaluation;

R. if yes, automatically modify lesson plan based on evaluation;

S. rendering report on student'"'"'s progress toward meeting individual education plan benchmarks and objectives; and

T. returning to above step of said evaluating instructional criteria need in order to facilitate the student in meeting established benchmarks and objectives of specific individual education plan.

2. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein said recording student'"'"'s mastery level as indicated by teacher includes determining the student'"'"'s mastery level subjectively by teacher evaluation.

3. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein said recording student'"'"'s mastery level as indicated by teacher includes determining the student'"'"'s mastery level objectively by comparing grade and test results to benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan.

4. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 further including allocating of the costs of the teaching materials to the database record of the specific student making use thereof performed after said choosing of specific instruction materials based on current lesson plan.

5. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 further including checking of inventory of instructional materials for items needed for current student.

6. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 5 further including completing of a purchase order for any instructional materials not present in inventory thereof.

7. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 6 further including providing of instructional materials as ordered.

8. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 6 wherein said completing of a purchase order for any instructional materials for a student is performed by the student'"'"'s teacher.

9. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 further including providing suggestions for proposed modifications of lesson plans to be performed after said establishing criteria for evaluation progress of student toward meeting the objectives and benchmarks of the individual education plan.

10. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein said comparing student'"'"'s mastery level to the benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan is performed automatically by system software.

11. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein said determining initially whether current student has present needs for special education includes generating of a present level of performance report to facilitate determining whether special education is warranted.

12. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 further comprising activating of a first level alarm to indicate imminent possibility of soon becoming out of compliance with mandated special education schedule.

13. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 further comprising activating of a second level alarm to indicate immediate out of compliance with mandated special education schedule.

14. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein said comparing student'"'"'s mastery level to individual education plan benchmarks and objectives includes classifying of student performance relative to the mastery levels according to pre-specified success levels comprising:

A. none;

B. exposure only;

C. partially mastered; and

D. fully mastered.

15. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein the benchmarks and objectives are continually updated to be maintained current with the latest required special educational guidelines.

16. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein said determining initially whether current student has present needs for special education includes conducting an initial evaluation meeting of involved special education personnel and parents of current student to provide more detailed analysis for establishing possible need for special education.

17. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 wherein reevaluation of a student is initiated under any one of a plurality of conditions including:

A. three years have passed since initial evaluation;

B. three years have passed since last re-evaluation'"'"'

C. evaluation requested by parents of student;

D. student reaches five years of age; and

E. educational staff requested re-evaluation.

18. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students as defined in claim 1 further including generating an annual report evaluating and analyzing the levels of all students in the database in progressing toward full mastery of the benchmarks and objectives set forth in each individual education plan.

19. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students, the method comprising the steps of:

A. providing a computerized database for electronically recording educational information and unique identification information on a number of different special education students;

B. initially evaluating a particular student to determine whether special education needs are present which includes conducting an initial evaluation meeting of involved special education personnel and parents of current student to provide more detailed analysis for establishing possible need for special education;

C. if special education is not needed, then terminate present student analysis and establish a reminder scheduled for re-evaluating the student in the future;

D. if special education is needed, then prepare an individual education plan customized for the particular student'"'"'s customized benchmarks and objectives;

E. establishing a unique record in the computerized database for the particular student with special education needs;

F. entering unique identification criteria for the particular student to the student'"'"'s record in the database;

G. entering a full description of the individual education plan prepared for a particular student into the student'"'"'s record in the database;

H. evaluating instructional criteria and instructional materials needed in order to facilitate the student in meeting the currently established benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan;

I creating a specific lesson plan for the student correlated to the instructional criteria and the instructional materials designated in the individual education plan;

J. choosing specific instructional materials based on current lesson plan and correlated to the individual education plan;

K. placing the student with a specific teaching group of students currently working on similar lessons plans;

L. establishing criteria for evaluating progress of student toward meeting the objectives and benchmarks of individual educational plan;

M. recording student evaluation and test results to determine student mastery level and educational progress toward meeting of benchmarks and objectives of individual education plan;

N. recording student'"'"'s mastery level, as indicated by teacher, subsequent to one or more lessons based on evaluative criteria including;

(1) subjectively determining the student'"'"'s mastery level by teacher evaluation;

(2) objectively determining the student'"'"'s mastery level by comparing grade and test results to benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan;

O. comparing student'"'"'s mastery level automatically by computerized analysis of individual education plan benchmarks and objectives;

P. determining whether student has further need for any special education;

Q. if no, render final report of completion of successful special education effort and establish time period of re-evaluation;

R. if yes, automatically modify lesson plan based on evaluation;

S. rendering report on student'"'"'s progress toward meeting Individual education plan benchmarks and objectives;

T. activating of a first level alarm to indicate imminent possibility of soon becoming out of compliance with mandated special education schedule or activating of a second level alarm to indicate immediate out of compliance with mandated special education schedule; and

U. returning to above step of said evaluating instructional criteria need in order to facilitate the student in meeting established benchmarks and objectives of specific individual education plan.

20. A computerized management system for maintaining compliance with predesignated guidelines for providing individualized education administered to special education students, the method comprising the steps of:

A. providing a computerized database for electronically recording educational information and unique identification information on a number of different special education students;

B. initially evaluating a particular student to determine whether special education needs are present which includes generating of a present level of performance report to facilitate determining whether special education is warranted and conducting an initial evaluation meeting of involved special education personnel and parents of current student to provide more detailed analysis for etablishing possible need for special education;

C. if special education is not needed, then terminate present student analysis and establish a reminder scheduled for re-evaluating the student in the future;

D. if special education is needed, then prepare an individual education plan customized for the particular student'"'"'s customized benchmarks and objectives;

E. establishing a unique record in the computerized database for the particular student with special education needs;

F. entering unique identification criteria for the particular student to the student'"'"'s record in the database;

G. entering a full description of the individual education plan prepared for a particular student into the student'"'"'s record in the database;

H. evaluating instructional criteria and instructional materials needed in order to facilitate a student to meet the currently established benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan;

I creating a specific lesson plan for the student correlated to the instructional criteria and the instructional materials as specified in the individual education plan;

J. choosing specific instructional materials based on current lesson plan;

K. allocating of the costs of the teaching materials to the database record of the specific student making use thereof;

L. checking of inventory of instructional materials for items needed for current student;

M. completing of a purchase order by teacher for any instructional materials not present in inventory thereof;

N. providing of instructional materials as ordered to teacher;

O. placing the student with a specific teaching group of students currently working on similar lessons plans;

P. establishing criteria for evaluating progress of student toward meeting the objectives and benchmarks of individual educational plan;

Q. recording student evaluation and test results to determine student mastery level and educational progress toward meeting of benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan;

R. recording student'"'"'s mastery level, as indicated by teacher, subsequent to one or more lessons based on evaluative criteria including;

(1) subjectively determining the student'"'"'s mastery level by teacher evaluation;

(2) objectively determining the student'"'"'s mastery level by comparing grade and test results to benchmarks and objectives of the individual education plan;

S. comparing student'"'"'s mastery level automatically by computerized analysis to individual education plan benchmarks and objectives by indicating mastery level as follows;

(1) none;

(2) exposure only;

(3) partially mastered;

(4) fully mastered;

T. determining whether student has further need for any special education;

U. if no, render final report of completion of successful special education effort and establish time period of re-evaluation;

V. if yes, automatically modify lesson plan based on evaluation;

W. rendering written report on student'"'"'s progress toward meeting individual education plan benchmarks and objectives and suggesting of lesson plan modifications;

X. activating of a first level alarm to indicate imminent possibility of soon becoming out of compliance with mandated special education schedule or activating of a second level alarm to indicate immediate out of compliance with mandated special education schedule;

Y. continual updating of the benchmarks and objectives to be maintained current with the latest required special educational guidelines;

Z. generating a periodic report evaluating and analyzing the levels of all students in the database in progressing toward full mastery of the benchmarks and objectives set forth in each individual education plan; and

AA. returning to above step of said evaluating instructional criteria need in order to facilitate the student in meeting established benchmarks and objectives of specific individual education plan.