Student Support Consultant
Providing support and resources to schools for academic and behavioural needs.
Department of Education’s Student Support Consultants are members of an interdisciplinary educational team. They provide a range of services (i.e., consultation, assessment, programming, training, community liaising, etc.) to support students within the educational setting.
Student Support Consultants provide support and guidance with:
Department of Education’s Student Support Consultants are members of an interdisciplinary educational team. They provide a range of services (i.e., consultation, assessment, programming, training, community liaising, etc.) to support students within the educational setting.
Student Support Consultants provide support and guidance with:
- The student referral process
- Support the development of Individual Education Plans (IEP); Student Learning Plans (StLP); Student Support Plans (SSP), Behaviour Support Plans (BSP); Safety Plans (SP)
- Universal Design for Learning and Differentiation
- Inclusive Educational Practices
- Access to Learning strategies
- School Based Team Meetings
- Classroom Management
- Observations/Recommendations (Whole class /individual student)
- Data Collection
- Problem Solving
- In-servicing/training/mentoring
Resources
Websites:
- Shelley Moore - Teaching and Empowering All Students
- Social Thinking: Michelle Garcia Winner – strategies to help students develop social competencies
- Learning Assistance Teachers of British Columbia - click on their resource link for extensive resources and ideas
- This blog by Marjorie Martinelli & Kristine Mraz - excellent ideas for creating visuals to pair with your teaching
- Teaching Tools - Selected publications and links to classroom friendly learning sites from the Ontario Ministry of Education
- Autism Community Training - British Columbia
- Trauma Sensitive Schools - The initiative behind this website is to ensure children who have been affected by trauma succeed in school.
- Yukon Special Education Teacher Sub Association (SETSA): https://setsayukon.weebly.com/
- Cult of Pedagogy (run by a team of people committed to making you more awesome in the classroom)
- Find out what you need to graduate from high school : https://yukon.ca/en/graduate-high-school
- The British Columbia Teachers' Federation Teaching and Classroom Resources: https://www.bctf.ca/classroom-resources
- Learning First Peoples Classroom Resources: http://www.fnesc.ca/learningfirstpeoples
Parents and/or guardians are encouraged to contact their child’s classroom teacher to discuss any concerns or questions about their child’s learning and development