Student Support Team (SST)
Purpose Statement of the Student Support Team (SST)
The purpose of the Pathways Student Support Team is to ensure academic, behavioral, and social- emotional success for all students.
Definition of Intervention:
- Interventions at Pathways are strategic and purposeful adult actions that are designed to accelerate and/or enrich student learning through explicit instruction.
- Examples of interventions (i.e. teaching a skill where the student has to learn and teacher monitors):
- Small group or individual tutoring
- Explicit instruction in writing strategies
- Explicit instruction in the meaning of selected prefixes
- Teaching a student how to create a schedule in order to complete a long term project
- Support or social skills group with specific curriculum
- Teaching a student how to graph her progress in learning math facts
- Teaching a student a variety of appropriate ways to ask a teacher for help
- Examples of modifications/accommodations (change in what and how the student learns):
- Use of agenda, organizers, planners, manipulative
- Guided reading group
- Change of seat
- Increase or decrease in breadth of required content