Take a phone message others can read
When to use this goal
For transition-age students in office, reception, or school-based jobs who take phone or in-person messages that coworkers cannot read or that miss key details. Fit depends on job-site samples, not grade.
- Baseline
- Use five role-played messages and ask a coworker or another adult to read each one back. Score a message as readable when they get every part right.
- Tips
- Asking the caller to repeat is a real workplace strategy. A typed message on a device is fine where the workplace uses one.
- Limits
- Mixes listening and handwriting; separate them if the student misses details even when not writing.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID mt-hw-054.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, during a role-play of a phone call with a message to take on a message pad, the student will write the caller's name, number, and message on the message pad so a coworker can read it independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weekly checks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected five messages per week, real or role-played.
Baseline: 1 of 5 opportunities.
- 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. Opportunities fits this behavior.
Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.
Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.
Met: Method produces the metric. Opportunity (trial) recording gives opportunities 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 Handwriting.
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
- Motor & Sensory Skills (OT, PT & Adapted PE) - Handwriting
- Baseline
- 1 of 5 opportunities.
- Annual goal399 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, during a role-play of a phone call with a message to take on a message pad, the student will write the caller's name, number, and message on the message pad so a coworker can read it independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weekly checks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected five messages per week, real or role-played.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- During a role-play of a phone call with a message to take on a message pad
- Behavior
- The student will write the caller's name, number, and message on the message pad so a coworker can read it independently
- Criteria
- In at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weekly checks
- Evaluation method
- Opportunity-by-opportunity data
- Schedule
- Five messages per week, real or role-played
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Matching data sheet
Opportunity tracker. One box per opportunity in each session.
Opportunity tracker
Opportunities- Student label:
- Target:
- in at least 4 of 5 opportunities
- Mastery rule:
- across 3 consecutive weekly checks
- Collection schedule:
- five messages per week, real or role-played
- Method:
- Opportunity (trial) recording
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, during a role-play of a phone call with a message to take on a message pad, the student will write the caller's name, number, and message on the message pad so a coworker can read it independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weekly checks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected five messages per week, real or role-played.
Key: + demonstrated independently · P demonstrated with a prompt (note type) · − not demonstrated · NA no opportunity occurred
| Date | Activity / context | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | # + (of 5) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preview shows 4 of 12 rows.
- Record up to 5 opportunities per session, matching the goal's denominator.
- Define in advance what counts as an opportunity so every data collector records the same thing.
- Count only + marks toward the criterion unless the goal specifies prompted responses.
The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.