Professionals Trained in These Disciplines...

Pupil/related services personnel perform critical tasks in schools, including:

• Supporting effective teaching and improved student learning and facilitate collaboration among school staff, families and the community;
• Providing a variety of prevention and intervention services in schools that promote effective classroom learning and teaching;
• Working together with teachers and administrators to develop a positive school climate, improving classroom management skills, providing behavioral interventions to reduce discipline infractions, improving school safety, and removing barriers to learning;
• Providing educational programs and activities that support student learning and teaching, including consultation with teachers and families, assessments linked to instruction, individual and group counseling, problem-solving instruction, and remedial interventions;
• Collaborating with teachers and school staff to ensure that students receive high quality instruction that is a response to the diverse and developmental needs of all students, create a continuum of support services for all students, and providing various instructional strategies to facilitate learning in all classrooms;
• Participating, as members of the school team, in professional development to ensure high quality learning; and
• Fostering collaboration not only between general and special education, but also between community and schools and schools and parents.

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