are you sure they are going to buy this? it seems too appropriate and too good to be true!
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Are you sure they are going to buy this?
It seems too appropriate and too good to be true!
Putting in the procedures and infrastructure so that the world will buy this as the most appropriate and legitimate approach for working with students with complex ID
Introducing Intensive Interaction to Southport
Special School
August 2010: Introducing Intensive Interaction to students
and staff in my class Informal discussions with colleagues Discussions with Administration
Toes in the water
2011:Current Head of Curriculum supportive of change Janee Williamson one day course for selected staffSmall amount of time given on Student Free Days for PD about appropriate approaches for students with complex IDsWorking with and advising staff around me
Up to our knees
2012:New Head of Curriculum with a knowledge of and interest in Intensive InteractionSmall group training in II for teachers and TAs from throughout the school8 Day CourseIntroduction of formal Moderation and Mentoring program
Up to our waist and splashing about
2013:New role: Music and Intensive Interaction SupportSmall group training, Moderation and MentoringEstablishing a class whose focus was II in the main body of the schoolVisit Mt Ommaney Online interschool Moderation
The year we got our hair wet
The year we got our hair wet
Intensive Interaction Protocols for the school
Guidelines on the use of Touch Pedagogical Framework: making sure that
Intensive Interaction was on the agenda Starting the process of longitudinal record
keeping of both student and staff involvement in Intensive Interaction
2014: New Deputy Principal: II becomes a priority
on the timetable Classes especially created with an Intensive
Interaction focus Music 2/3, Intensive Interaction Support 1/3 Increased time made available for
Moderation and Mentoring
Doing the breaststroke
Greater opportunities for staff PD in school
and from E.Q. Parental Involvement Independent Public School: supporting our
commitment to Intensive Interaction Embedding II in the Pedagogical
Framework
Doing the breaststroke
The Future:The analysis of longitudinal dataThe transition of our students who need II into their post school life. Expanding the II Team/ a discrete team within the schoolIdentifying more students for whom II would be beneficial
Surfing the waves?
Surfing the waves?