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Standards and procedures for Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour Operating standards and procedures set out how the RTLB service works and make sure the service is consistent and meets compliance requirements.

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Our Process for Requesting Support with RTLB

Identifying Needs

  • Schools follow their process for initial identification or concern or need by whānau, educators or health professionals This may be based on concerns with learning, developmental, social-emotional needs and/or communication.

  • Schools are encouraged to reference the West Coast RTLB website www.westcoastrtlb.org and the Inclusive Language of Needs 

  • Teacher/kaiako initiates discussion with learners’ whānau/guardians and seeks ‘Initial verbal consent’  with whānau to further discuss needs.

 

Planning for Support

  • Schools are encouraged to engage in a mapping meeting with the liaison RTLB  to discuss needs using Te Tūāpapa as a guide

  • Your Additional Needs Register and current school-wide initiatives is helpful information for this sense-making/prioritising phase

  • Structured learning conversations eg: GROW, help us to group identified needs and opportunities for support

  • If a Request for Support (RfS) with RTLB is agreed as the best way forward, it is decided who the team is that will create the RfS 

  • The liaison RTLB takes the identified needs to their practice team to decide who will partner with the school team to support the RfS (practice teams meet fortnightly)

 

Accessing Support

  • School lead (ideally) or RTLB contacts all team members to collaboratively write the RfS

  • He Pikorua  Whakawhanaungatanga reflective questions shape up the tikanga for the team

  • The team create the RfS together, including clear goals for our work together and how we will measure impact/success of our work  - shared out for feedback before submitted

  • Helpful information for the team to bring could include: current support plans, learning information, student/whānau voice…

  • RTLB submits RfS into the RTLB Database within 7 days of confirmation of need and informed consent being granted (allocation meetings are held weekly)

  • The request for support is allocated to a RTLB and communicated to the school within 10 days of the allocation meeting

 

Actioning Support

  • Clarify the specific goal/s that will lead to the agreed outcomes and impact of our work together

  • The team identifies the outcomes data (decide here what a 10/10 would look like and how you will know - impact measurement)

  • Using structured learning conversations eg: GROW, establish opportunities and anticipate challenges that will form the ‘HOW’ you will achieve impact in the RfS

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