Professional Development and Training
An overview of the training and Professional Development offered by the Office of Training and Monitoring.
The New Hampshire Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education Support, Office of Training and Monitoring provides learning opportunities to Local Education Agencies and Special Education Private Providers in key special education topic areas at no cost.
Key Special Education Topics
Measurable Annual Goals
Description:
Participants will learn how to use the student information/evaluation data to write Present Levels of Performance of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLOAAFP –IEP Page 2). They will learn to use the pertinent student evaluation data combined with other current observation and assessment data to write present levels for each annual goal. They will learn what components need to be included in the writing of age –appropriate measurable annual goals and objectives based on each annual goal present level information; and how to write measurable annual IEP goals and objectives to help build the student skills so they can access, participate, and make progress in the general curriculum.
Audience: Special educators, administrators, and related service personnel
Length of Training: 2 hours
Minimum Participants: 5
A follow up work session is also available upon request; 1-2 hours in which staff bring their goals to work on or ask specific questions.
Written Prior Notice Guidance
Description:
This professional development for Written Prior Notice (WPN) was created with stakeholder input in response to district requests for the Bureau to provide guidance regarding the use of and the content of WPNs. This training utilizes IDEA regulations as a guide to remind participants of the intent of the WPN, when districts should use a WPN, and the required components of the form. The guidance document and model WPN form will be shared along with sample compliant WPNs.
Audience: Special educators, administrators
Length of Training: 2 hours
Minimum Participants: 5
Specially Designed Instruction
Description:
Participants will learn what specially designed instruction is as defined by IDEA and how it applies to students with disabilities. They will gain a practical understanding of specially designed instruction, and the means in which it can be delivered as a service to special education students. Additionally, participants will learn how it is merged into the IEP using the special education process in a sequential and cyclical manner beginning with using evaluation data to describe unique student needs based upon present levels of academic and function performance, then identifying specific areas of specially designed instruction incorporated into special education services combined with annual measurable goals and progress monitoring.
Audience: Special educators, administrators, and related service personnel
Length of Training: 2 Hours
Minimum Participants: 5
To Request a Training, please contact
GaetanMarie Fitgerald-Lacourse, Monitoring Program Assistant
Bureau of Special Education Support
25 Hall Street, Concord, NH 03301
Email: GaetanMarie.B.FitgeraldLacourse@doe.nh.gov
Phone: (603) 271-1577
Special Education Monitoring Trainings
- Monitoring and Compliance Trainings May and August 2024
- Indicator 13 Technical Assistance Office Hours February through April 2024
Preschool Trainings
Contact
Alexa Simmons
Alexa.J.Simmons@doe.nh.gov
NH Accessible Educational Materials Trainings (NHAEM)
Contact
Robin Budryk
Robin.G.Budryk@doe.nh.gov
(603) 271-0818
NHSEIS Trainings
NHSEIS trainings and webinars for Special Education Teachers, Office Professionals, and Personnel.
Contact
Brandy Quinn-Richards
Brandy.A.Quinn-Richards@doe.nh.gov
(603) 271-2178
New Special Education Coordinator Meetings
Contact
Danielle Pelletier
Danielle.Pelletier@doe.nh.gov
(603) 271-3737
Office of Finance Trainings
Contact
Lisa Moody
Lisa.M.Moody@doe.nh.gov