Find the right platform or gate using signs
When to use this goal
For students who travel through transit centers, train stations, or airports and follow other people instead of the signs. Needs reading line names, numbers, and arrows; present levels decide fit, not grade.
- Baseline
- Plan 5 places to find across trips. Score correct when the student reaches the right place using signs, with staff a set distance behind.
- Tips
- Departure boards change platforms; teach checking the board again before boarding.
- Limits
- Solo travel is a team and family decision based on data, the travel plan, and the student's safety skills; this goal does not decide it. Street crossing and stranger responses are covered by community-safety goals.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID tn-ca-044.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, in a transit center, train station, or airport on a travel-training trip, given the line, platform, or gate to find, the student will follow the signs to the named platform, bay, or gate independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive trips, as measured by direct observation collected on each travel-training trip through a station.
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. Direct observation 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 Community Access & Travel.
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
- Transition & Postsecondary Skills - Community Access & Travel
- Baseline
- 1 of 5 opportunities.
- Annual goal385 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, in a transit center, train station, or airport on a travel-training trip, given the line, platform, or gate to find, the student will follow the signs to the named platform, bay, or gate independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive trips, as measured by direct observation collected on each travel-training trip through a station.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- In a transit center, train station, or airport on a travel-training trip, given the line, platform, or gate to find
- Behavior
- The student will follow the signs to the named platform, bay, or gate independently
- Criteria
- In at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive trips
- Evaluation method
- Direct observation
- Schedule
- On each travel-training trip through a station
Copied as plain text, with straight quotes and plain dashes.
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 trips
- Collection schedule:
- on each travel-training trip through a station
- Method:
- Direct observation
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, in a transit center, train station, or airport on a travel-training trip, given the line, platform, or gate to find, the student will follow the signs to the named platform, bay, or gate independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive trips, as measured by direct observation collected on each travel-training trip through a station.
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.