Obtaining Admin Support for Collaboration
In recent years, classroom teachers and
administrators have been placed under increasing pressure to achieve
high levels academic performance among their students. With the time
requirements of increasingly demanding academic goals, collaboration and inclusion seem
like a hindrance to many educators. As a consequence, SLPs must take extra effort to educate teachers and administrators
on the benefits of an inclusive model. Although there are countless
benefits of inclusion, below are some talking points for SLPs to use
when discussing inclusion with other educators.
- Ultimate Response to Intervention (RtI)
- Intense experience and language training of SLPs
- A wealth of language strategies to use with all students
- Benefits of collaboration between teachers and SLPs
- Contributions to the success of No Child Left Behind
- Strategies to encourage mastery of state mandated academic goals
- Assistance with standardized assessment objectives
- Facilitating writing skills
- Assistance for at-risk students
- Language strategies
- Vocabulary development
- Following directions
- Students are not pulled out of instructional time
You might also be interested in...