Learning Diversity Intervention
Students at COHR have a wide range of diverse needs and additional support is offered in a variety of ways at COHR. This additional support is called an “instructional intervention”. It’s a specific program or set of steps to address an academic need.
At any time these needs can include;
- consolidation groups for students performing just below expected level
- extension groups for students performing above the expected level
- support groups for students who need additional targeted teaching to meet their needs.
Teachers and learning support staff collaborate to deliver this teaching support and individualized learning plans designed to increase learning growth for these children and ensure they achieve success.
School interventions can take many forms:
- Classroom teacher guided focus groups to meet literacy and/or mathematics needs as they arise,
- Targeted classroom support through an additional teacher resource working in the room with small groups,
- Withdrawal Intervention programs in Literacy- Reading and Writing and Mathematics which are allocated on a needs basis each term based on class testing and pre and post assessments,
- Learning Support Officer (LSO) support for NCCD students within the class and/or withdrawn for one on one when needed.
- Extension sessions run in small groups
Some of the Interventions used at COHR:
- Reading Recovery Program
- Talk Boost Oral Language Program
- Sound Check Phonological Awareness program
- Multi Step Oral Language program
- LLI (Levelled Literacy Intervention)
- Extension groups
- Prep Phonological Awareness group
- Decodable readers
- MSL (Multi Sensory Literacy)
- Levelled/targeted Mathematics classes
- Seasons program: dealing with change, loss and grief
- PMP Perceptual Motor: Movement based program
Parent Communication
If your child is identified as needing Intervention support you will be notified by our Intervention teachers or your child’s class teacher. The intervention is revised each term at our Student Learning Team meeting and data is reviewed. New students will be added, some will continue and others may no longer require support. Communication regarding this additional intervention is important and will be shared with parents as it arises.
Effective intervention at COHR is focused on staff, parents and the child working together, enabling all children to flourish to their fullest potential.
