Fill a weekly pill organizer from a list
When to use this goal
For high school and transition students who will manage daily medication at home and whose family wants them to fill a weekly organizer under supervision. Base the choice on family wishes and the health provider's guidance. A family member or nurse checks every organizer before use.
- Baseline
- Start with practice fills using look-alike tablets that are not medicine, scored compartment by compartment. Move to real fills only when the family and nurse agree, always with an adult check.
- Tips
- Every compartment must be right; an adult checks every fill before any dose is taken. Use the pharmacy's printed list as the source. Teach the student to stop and ask when a pill looks different.
- Limits
- Not for students or medications where the provider or family says an adult fills organizers. Accuracy at practice does not replace the adult check. This goal never replaces the individualized health plan, medication orders, or an emergency action plan; the nurse, the family, and the student's health care provider decide care, and the goal follows their plan.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID fn-hlt-024.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, at home each week with a family member checking, using the medication list from the provider, the student will fill each compartment of the weekly organizer to match the medication list independently with 100% accuracy on pill organizer compartments, in 4 of 4 consecutive weekly fills, as measured by work-sample analysis collected weekly.
Baseline: 70% accuracy.
- Condition
- Observable behavior
- Criterion
- Measurement method
Measurability check11 of 11 met
Met: Observable behavior. Stated as an action.
Met: Condition. Stated.
Met: Unit fits the behavior. Percent accuracy fits this behavior.
Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.
Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.
Met: Method produces the metric. Work-sample analysis gives percent accuracy data.
Met: Review timeframe. Stated.
Met: Baseline and target compatible. Same unit, change in the right direction.
Met: Aligned with area of need. Still about Health & Self-Management.
Met: Level of support. Defined.
Met: Blanks filled in. Nothing left to fill in.
Checks structure and wording only. Whether the goal fits the student is the team's call.
Short-term objectives (optional)
When are objectives required?Required for students on alternate assessments (34 CFR §300.320(a)(2)(ii)); some states require them for everyone.
Paste into your IEP system
Most district systems have a separate box for each part of a goal. Copy them one at a time, or all at once as labeled text.
- Area of need
- Functional & Independence Skills - Health & Self-Management
- Baseline
- 70% accuracy.
- Annual goal371 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, at home each week with a family member checking, using the medication list from the provider, the student will fill each compartment of the weekly organizer to match the medication list independently with 100% accuracy on pill organizer compartments, in 4 of 4 consecutive weekly fills, as measured by work-sample analysis collected weekly.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- At home each week with a family member checking, using the medication list from the provider
- Behavior
- The student will fill each compartment of the weekly organizer to match the medication list independently
- Criteria
- With 100% accuracy on pill organizer compartments, in 4 of 4 consecutive weekly fills
- Evaluation method
- Work-sample analysis
- Schedule
- Weekly
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Matching data sheet
Accuracy tracker. Records number correct and number attempted.
Accuracy tracker
Percent accuracy- Student label:
- Target:
- with 100% accuracy on pill organizer compartments
- Mastery rule:
- in 4 of 4 consecutive weekly fills
- Collection schedule:
- weekly
- Method:
- Work-sample analysis
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, at home each week with a family member checking, using the medication list from the provider, the student will fill each compartment of the weekly organizer to match the medication list independently with 100% accuracy on pill organizer compartments, in 4 of 4 consecutive weekly fills, as measured by work-sample analysis collected weekly.
| Date | Task / materials | # correct | # attempted | % accuracycorrect ÷ attempted × 100 | Support levele.g., independent, 1 verbal prompt | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preview shows 4 of 12 rows.
- Score only items the student attempted unless the goal defines a fixed set of items. Use the same denominator every session.
- Percent = numerator ÷ denominator × 100. Round to one decimal place.
- Record the support actually provided, even if the goal is independent performance.
The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.