EAL/D Role Statement
The Learning and Support Teacher will, through the school's learning and support team, provide direct and timely specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and their teachers. Many of these students come from diverse cultural, linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds. The Disability Standards for Education 2005 provides the context for the role and activities of the Learning and Support Teacher. Emphasis in the role will reflect the needs of individual students and school priorities and programs that support students with additional learning and support needs. The role will be underpinned by a collaborative and consultative approach so that the student and/or their parent or carer are actively involved in the student's education.
The Learning and Support Teacher will:
• Work collaboratively with the classroom teacher to support assessment for learning their students with additional educational needs and identify specific learning and support needs
• Plan, implement, model, monitor and evaluate teaching programs for students with additional learning and support needs in conjunction with regular classroom teachers
• Plan, implement, model, monitor and evaluate personalised adjustments for learning where required, with the classroom teacher, student and/or parent or carer
• Model exemplary classroom practice when tailoring adjusted learning programs for students with additional learning needs
• Provide direct support for students with additional learning and support needs through a range of strategies (including direct instruction, delivery of adjusted learning programs, assessment and monitoring of progress) including the areas of social integration, language and communication, literacy, numeracy and behaviour. This may include students with confirmed disabilities.
• Provide professional specialist advice, support and mentoring to classroom teachers on:
- How best to cater for the diverse learning needs in their classrooms, and;
- How to effectively work in partnership with families to maximise learning opportunities for students at school and at home
• Provide professional specialist advice and assistance about students with additional learning needs to the school's learning and support team
• assist with professional learning for class teachers and school Learning and Support officers within their school and local network of schools where appropriate.'
• Manage disability provisions for the BOSTES process