WRSD STUDENT SERVICES
The Student Support Services Department exists to help our students learn and be successful. They ensure all the partners involved in the planning and delivery of a student’s educational program work together.
Collaborative problem solving creates a relevant and effective teaching and intervention plan for students. This enables a student to learn and be successful by working with their learning strengths and needs.
The Collaborative Decision Making process includes:
Collaborative problem solving creates a relevant and effective teaching and intervention plan for students. This enables a student to learn and be successful by working with their learning strengths and needs.
The Collaborative Decision Making process includes:
- Assessment of the student’s strength as a learner
- Assessment of the learning environment including an analysis of the instructional content and techniques
- Selection of content and techniques that provide opportunities for success
- All children have the right to a supportive learning environment where individual differences and learning needs are respected and accommodated;
- The independence of each student is developed to maximum potential;
- Parents are partners in their children’s education;
- Active learning requires appropriate curriculum and diversity of instructional methods, materials and assessment practices;
The classroom teacher has a central role in the development and implementation of each child’s program supported through collaborative processes that based upon current pedagogy and best practice
- Programming and services will be provided in the most appropriate and least restrictive environment;
- A continuum of services and a variety of settings will be necessary to address the diversity of individual needs
- All programming will strive to promote inclusion within the school community and the community at large.