Student Support Services
Student Support Services offers a continuum of services and programs for students who have been found eligible for special education. These services encompass but are not limited to one-on-one direct support of students, in class teacher and student support, consultation with staff, and instructional support in directed study. These services are provided by the special education staff which includes resource room teachers, integration facilitators, and instructional assistants.
Student Support Services believes:
Learning style impacts how individuals acquire skills and knowledge
Acquisition of skills provides the foundation for academic and vocational growth
Predicting, anticipating, planning and implementing are important strategies to achieve goals
The development of self advocacy skills leads to academic and vocational independence
Emotional well being influences every facet of life including the ability to make decisions, form relationships and achieve personal goals
Sample courses
Directed Study
The purpose of Directed Study is to provide academic assistance in all subject areas as well as working on IEP goals and objectives. The focus is on re-teaching content.
Life Skills
This course pertains to personal and health issues, nutritional needs, money skills and time management.
Life Skills Math
This course takes the individual student where they are in math skills, applying instruction and activities to continue the development of numeracy, basic mathematical operations and their application.
Life Skills Literacy
This course takes the individual student where they are in reading and writing, applying instruction and activities to continue the development of decoding, comprehension, spelling and written response
Life Skills Civics
Work in this class gives the student knowledge of their community, local and state government, area agencies and services, financial institutions, and social connections.
Math Skills
This course is designed to teach and reinforce basic mathematics concepts, operations and their application to work and life. This course can reinforce concepts covered in earlier math courses, prepare students to continue on to other high school math courses such as Intro to Algebra or Algebra and/or prepare the student for use of mathematics in post-secondary work and life.
Senior Seminar: Transition to Adulthood
This course is designed to prepare students to plan for life after high school. The course will explore tasks such as planning for post-secondary training and/or education, preparing applications and resumes, applying for jobs and workplace expectations.
Structured Literacy
The Structured Literacy classes employ a systematic instructional approach to the 5 fundamental skills of reading: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Reading Fluency, and Reading Comprehension.
Structured Writing and Thinking
This course is designed to teach and reinforce basic language skills and learning strategies. Study of basic building blocks of writing through Landmark School’s “From Talking to Writing” program will scaffold student understanding and writing of sentence parts, types of sentences, and paragraphs.
Structured Writing
High School Structured Writing is a systematic approach to applying metacognitive and executive functioning strategies to the writing process.
Unified Wellness
Students work together with students identified with disabilities in a variety of physical activities as well as support learning experiences in the kitchen related to nutrition.