Join us for live, online professional development webinars this spring. In each session, learn more about assessment and instruction or intervention for young children with IFSPs and IEPs. All sessions offer opportunities to ask questions, receive resources, and learn from each other.
Courses and Tutorials
DR Access Learn | Recorded Webinars | Tutorials
DR Access Learn
The California Department of Education, Special Education Division requires DRDP training for all early childhood special educators who assess children with the DRDP. SELPAs are responsible for ensuring that all staff who administer the DRDP (2015) complete training.
- Create an account and access courses at DRAccessLearn.org
- Complete the first course, “Using the DRDP (2015) for Special Education” (including a Demonstration of Rating Skills) and all courses in subsequent years.
- Assess eligible children with the DRDP even if courses are not yet completed.
- Find more information about the DRDP assessment requirements in Appendix A of the DRDP (2015) Preschool Fundamental View Manual.
List of required courses available on DR Access Learn. California Department of Education, Special Education Division, requires DRDP training for all special educators who assess children with the DRDP.
Recorded Webinars
Essential information and resources for using the DRDP with children with Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs) and Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Questions answered at the end. (36:41)
Demonstrates how the DRDP informs present levels of performance or development on the IEP or IFSP, breaking down long term goals into next steps in instruction, and connections to the California Early Learning Foundations. Highlights how the authentic assessment process used to complete the DRDP, along with the resulting reports, provides a rich profile of a child’s learning and development. (36:05)
Recorded workshop describing and demonstrating how DRDP profiles inform: present levels of performance or development on the IEP or IFSP, long term goals, what to teach next, and linking the DRDP to the California Early Learning Foundations. (22:26)
Are you new to using the DRDP to assess young children in Transitional Kindergarten (TK) and Kindergarten (K)? Would it be helpful to learn strategies to support quality assessment? In this recorded webinar, the DR Access Team answered questions and shared essential information and resources for using the DRDP with children with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) in TK and K. (37:38)
In this recorded Learn Lab session we cover the suite of DRDP reports available for special education to prepare you to use the reports for planning. Learn about the DR Access Reports website, Child Reports, Peer Reference Reports, and Guidance on using and sharing reports. (44:48)
Families can participate in the DRDP in several ways. Watch this short Coffee Break recording to learn ways assessors to engage with families related to the DRDP including using adaptations, discussing child development, and reviewing assessment results. (12:48)
Explore strategies for linking the California Preschool Learning Foundations and DRDP authentic assessment information to support child development and learning in inclusive preschool classrooms. (27:42)
Are you providing instruction to a child on an IEP goal or related to a DRDP measure? In this Learn It & Use It session we practiced breaking it down into proximal learning targets using the authentic assessment information from the DRDP to determine what knowledge, skills, or behaviors to teach in daily activities, routines, and transitions for children with IFSPs and IEPs. (49:29)
Features strategies for using the DRDP and DR Access Reports to identify and measure the developmental and learning progress of children with IFSPs and IEPs. (22:26)
Learn about the Peer Reference Report, available from DR Access Reports, from this short, recorded webinar. (12:19)
Did you know that DRDP results are used to report on federal preschool child outcomes? In this Learn It & Use It session we walk through our new online tool to find your district or SELPA’s results. (42:27)
Tutorials
This interactive timeline describes the process of observing, documenting, rating, and submitting DRDP data for special education.
An interactive tutorial illustrating the measures of the DRDP (2015). Each measure of the DRDP (2015) describes a developmental continuum, ranging from earlier development to later development. There are three types of continua.
Quickly learn about the changes made to the DRDP Information Page for special education beginning fall, 2020.
Learn about adaptations for preschool children with IEPs (Individualized Education Programs) by meeting our friend Augie and his teacher, Ms. Keisha. You will see examples of adaptations used in distance learning and you can download guidance and a worksheet to help you and your team plan adaptations for your students.
This interactive tutorial describes what adaptations are, how they can help us more accurately assess children’s skills as we observe their daily activities, and provides a variety of examples of the seven adaptations used for the DRDP.
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For more information
If you are a general education preschool teacher, Early Head Start, or Head Start teacher, please visit the Desired Results for Children and Families website, for information about training to use the DRDP (2015):
www.desiredresults.us/scheduled-training
