Describe how leadership, teachers, families and students will be involved in this process. What role will each play?
Different parts of a student's education need to work in harmony in order to ensure the success of different students. Leadership must back initiatives that help students with academic needs as well as students with non-academic needs. Focus should first be on those students with academic needs, providing tutoring opportunities for students to receive further quality instruction and for those with non-academic needs, opportunities for them to grow in different areas (such as music). Teachers and families must communicate in order to make sure that parents know at all times what areas of academic focus their student should have. By letting parents know where a child is academically, providing the tools to improve, and keeping the parents updated, a teacher can help all students reach their academic goals.
What are the interventions that you plan to implement based on your goals and objectives?
Tutoring before/after school would be the first intervention for students with high academic needs. This will help students practice any skills that they may not be able to otherwise practice in the classroom because of where all the other students are academically, thus preventing a student from falling further behind academically. Grouping students into reading groups with similar needs will also help those students focus on the skills that they need to practice and work on in order to be successful.
What type of support will be needed to carry this out?
Leadership would have to provide the resources for teachers to be able to tutor students. In order to teach students based on grouping levels, additional adults in the classroom (interns, aids, etc) would greatly help to keep the rest of the class focused and on task. Having the extra person, a teacher could also use them to help carry out individualized instruction for those students that need it the most.
Different parts of a student's education need to work in harmony in order to ensure the success of different students. Leadership must back initiatives that help students with academic needs as well as students with non-academic needs. Focus should first be on those students with academic needs, providing tutoring opportunities for students to receive further quality instruction and for those with non-academic needs, opportunities for them to grow in different areas (such as music). Teachers and families must communicate in order to make sure that parents know at all times what areas of academic focus their student should have. By letting parents know where a child is academically, providing the tools to improve, and keeping the parents updated, a teacher can help all students reach their academic goals.
What are the interventions that you plan to implement based on your goals and objectives?
Tutoring before/after school would be the first intervention for students with high academic needs. This will help students practice any skills that they may not be able to otherwise practice in the classroom because of where all the other students are academically, thus preventing a student from falling further behind academically. Grouping students into reading groups with similar needs will also help those students focus on the skills that they need to practice and work on in order to be successful.
What type of support will be needed to carry this out?
Leadership would have to provide the resources for teachers to be able to tutor students. In order to teach students based on grouping levels, additional adults in the classroom (interns, aids, etc) would greatly help to keep the rest of the class focused and on task. Having the extra person, a teacher could also use them to help carry out individualized instruction for those students that need it the most.