Support Services Flashcards

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Core Functions of ILST (5)

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  1. To manage all learner, educator, curriculum & institution support for development in institution. Includes connecting itself to other school-based management structures & processes or integrating them for better coordination.
  2. To identify needs of institution. Specifically learning barriers that concern learner, educator, curriculum & institutional levels.
  3. To develop strategies to address needs & learning barriers that predominantly focus on educator development, parent consultation & support.
  4. To get resources from inside & outside institution to address these challenges
  5. To monitor & evaluate work of team within ‘action-reflection’ framework.
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Core Functions of DBST (6)

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  1. To help develop teaching & learning to become more effective by identifying & addressing learning barriers at all levels of the system.

2.To help develop and give support to local ILST in schools, colleges etc.
o This is done by supporting capacity building.
o Identifying & prioritising learning needs & barriers.
o Identifying support needed to address these challenges.
o Doing all of this in a well-planned, well managed way.

  1. To continuously monitor & evaluate all these processes.
  2. To connect institutions to formal & informal support systems in locality so that needs & barriers can be addressed.
  3. To help learners indirectly by acting as consultant to educators & institutions by helping develop curriculum & institution to accommodate to full range of diverse needs of learners.
  4. To help learners directly when necessary for example when ILST is unable to accommodate needs of learners.
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Special School as a Resource Centre (10)

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  1. To act as consultants to other neighbouring schools.
  2. To act as mentors for full service schools.
  3. To continuously provide specialised knowledge, support, services & equipment to learners with special needs
  4. To ensure that learning programs focus on individual needs of learners & help develop skills, knowledge, values & attitudes needed for work.
  5. To make use of all resources in community to develop & support education by collaborating with community.
  6. To get staff from specials schools with specialised skills to create learning material to help learners with barriers & disabilities.
  7. To get special school professional staff to help other schools by creating learning materials for learners with barriers & disabilities in mainstream (normal) schools.
  8. To offer specialised professional help to full service schools & other neighbourhood schools by integrating special school representatives in DBST.
  9. To get specialist staff to help community, visit schools & offer teaching resources.
  10. To support full service schools & other neighbourhood schools by helping with identifying, assessing & enrolling learners.
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Special schools can become a great resource to the neighbouring schools. Discuss this idea of Education White Paper 6. Give examples (6)

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  1. Special schools are great resource to full-service schools (inclusive) and other schools as they provide these schools with resources such as assistive devices.
  2. Help full-service schools to develop teaching methods to become more inclusive.
  3. Help full-service schools to use suitable teaching methods for learners with learning barriers.
  4. Act as a consultant to neighbouring schools
  5. Act as a mentor for full service schools
  6. Continue to provide specialised knowledge, support, services & equipment to learners with special needs.
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Full-Service School as Inclusive school (10)

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  1. Normal school changed into inclusive school
  2. Should be able to support wide range of learners’ needs
  3. Should know that barriers are not only intrinsic (impairment) but also extrinsic (environment)
  4. Should aim to be inclusive by how it is organized in terms of physical layout, school policies, practices, way of educating & culture of diversity
  5. Should provide extra support programmes for teaching & learning
  6. Should be aware of practices that exclude learners & see to it that they are removed or at least reduce them so that learning & development can take place for all.
  7. Should make learning accessible to all learners so they can reach full potential.
  8. Should be a place where learners & educators feel safe & supported
  9. Should be a place where educators’ work is motivated & supported & learners feel a sense of belonging & are engaged in learning process.
  10. Service should be brought about through collaboration
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