PT ENGLAND SCHOOL POLICY
ORS & BEHAVIOUR TEACHER’S AIDES HOURS
INTRODUCTION:
Our school has mainstreamed ORS children from time to time and most of the time has mainstreamed children with severe behaviour needs who come under various BEHAVIOUR allocations. These are children who are likely to need this kind of support for some time.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To ensure that children with identified needs have satisfactory programmes and support to meet those needs.
2. To ensure that Support Staff are enskilled and well capable of carrying out the tasks required.
3. To devise suitable programmes to remediate the needs of identified students.
4. To actively consult and interact with class teacher, class programme, and where possible and appropriate, with the home & parents
5. To ensure that other children in the classroom are not disadvantaged by the demand on class teacher time of mainstreamed special needs children.
GUIDELINES:
1. The semester’s programme will be set up and devised in consultation with the parent, the class teacher, GSE, part time teacher and Child Support Workers
2. The IEP is to be viewed as the major instrument to direct the programme. It is expected that Child Support Workers will be familiar with the IEP and teach to its objectives.
3. Children with an allocation may be withdrawn for individualised teaching if deemed appropriate, or they may be supported in class. Some will be minded in the playground at breaks. In all cases there will be a clear timetable. Teachers, CSW's, RTLB’s, Team Leaders and Principal should all be aware of these timetables.
4. There will be on-going consultation between the the group listed in no. 1 to ensure that the programme is effectively meeting the needs of the students.
5. Prior to any subsequent application being made for further ORRS or BEHAVIOUR support, the students will be assessed against their IEP to see whether they have moved into a different application category or whether they have shifted within categories, and if so how far.
6. In some cases this programme will remediate the needs of the child involved. In others, they will continue to need support for many years. All these children need regular discussion and assessment so that strict accountability is maintained with this resource. The staff at this school will undertake to ensure that special needs children receive their specific time allocation, and that any more hours sought are genuine.
7. In the event of questions, concerns, or even complaints arising from this programme, the principal will be notified. The principal will relay the content of any such approach to the Associate Principals or RTLB’s who will then meet with the TCSW to find the best way in which to handle the approach. From time to time the staff meeting or team meetings may be used as avenues for discussing, altering or evaluating this programme.
Formulated: 1995
Reviewed: 1999
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