The Student Success Team process was first established in the early eighties in California by the Special Education Resources Network. ... The team meets at the school and thoroughly reviews individual student's strengths and weaknesses. ... During the problem identification phase, the concerns are presented to the team from multiple perspectives. ... The SST considers several contributing factors such as the curriculum, instruction, school/classroom environment, home/community, peers, and the student's individual characteristics. ... Finally, school staff should modify the learning ...

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Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs when there is unwelcome sexual conduct such as touching, teasing, name-calling, sexual posters, pictures or jokes, which create an atmosphere that negatively impacts a student's daily routine. Hostile environment sexual harassment can be perpetrated by students, teachers, non-teacher employees such as janitors or other school staff, or third parties such as visiting athletic teams. ...

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Within Jenkins' (2002) model, the school setting I would like to place in the fourth quadrant of which it "provides sustained strong social support and positive learning environment and a resources balance sheet" (p.67). ... Furthermore, the school draws extensively on community support structures, for cooperation with specialist to assess the school environment and work closely with staff to improve the whole school response to student with diverse disabilities. ... The school support team uses the "individual education approaches" (Jenkins, 2002, p.60) and processes ...

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A multicultural environment involves people with a diversity of backgrounds. A school environment should be prepared for this kind of environments in order to offer equal opportunities to every student to reach all their academically potential and success. ... Anyways, racism has become one of the biggest issues in an environment with multicultural diversity. Racism has affected environments, society, communities and even education. ... If is necessary, school can change policies to add new challenges and appropriately add "team workers" to fight this problem. ...

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In Katherine Romano's article she introduces the concept of "webcentricity" and defines it as "using the Internet and technology to support a school's teaching and learning environment." ... The schools staff includes an Instructional Technology Specialist and a seven-person technology team, which includes an in-house, live Help Desk that kids can call when they"re having technical problems. ...

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This constructivist view applied with technology is evolving the learning environment into a more interactive and rewarding experience for students and teachers by improving learned abilities. ... While constructivism is an old (but often forgotten) concept in the endeavor to teach children, using technology along with this teaching philosophy is quite new, and prepares students for what they will encounter when they venture into the college world and/or work environment. "Technology can help improve student's abilities to: (a) solve problems, (b) communicate, (c) work on/as a team, (d)...

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Instructional Leadership Theory Instructional leadership is being shared with teachers, and in its most progressive forms it is being cast as coaching reflection, collegial investigation, study teams, explorations into uncertain matters, and problem solving (Glanz & Neville, 1997). ... In my building the teachers" team-teach with time for a daily team meeting that in-service or staff development as needed or requested. ... After having a discussion with the faculty and staff, we then must decide as a team to develop committees for development and implementation of these goals. ... All of t...

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Due to the lack of a nurturing academic environment, it is no surprise that many of these students face challenges. ... In one instance, I placed words around the classroom area and each team had an opportunity to find the matching synonyms. ... I would like to create an environment of support where the parents and I work together to improve the achievement and overall character of the children. ...

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Learn what kind of class systems there are, what the demographics of the environment in which they are teaching are, and even introduce themselves to community members as a person they can talk to if they feel a child is having problems. ...

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Aware of this relationship between the home environment and school success, over the years multiple programs have been developed within Australia and other countries, to develop closer relationships between schools and communities in order to enhance student performance. ... Accepting of the fact that parent involvement is critical to the academic and emotional growth of children, schools need a meaningful framework to guide them so as to avoid implementing programs that remain nothing more than "a series of disconnected activities with little relevance to family or classroom environments" (C...

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Finland´s success is a function of the network of five special characteristics and strengths external to the school environment that enable their students to reach such results in PISA studies. ... They achieve a successful treatment for students with educational needs because in every comprehensive school there is team integrated by the school`s leaders, teachers and medical and social work professionals that meets twice a month. ... They had to be able to come up with different learning environments and different methods so all students could learn. ...

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Social behaviour: Solitary and isolates himself or hangs around much younger children Does not join in team activities. ... He seeks secluded areas when in the playground, and shows no interest in team games or activities. ...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. It could be suggested that for many countries this is the key focus of their youth policies. Nevertheless, the divide between those young people who manage to successfully transition into a meaningful careers pathway and those who do not continues to widen. Establishing stronger welfare safety nets and better youth services that can respond more effectively to the needs of young people as they reach fruition have all been ...

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