Itinerant Service
Kimi Ora School
and Thorndon School
in partnership with Group Special Education offer an Itinerant Service to
schools in Wellington
City.
The Itinerant
Service provides a specialist special education teacher to work with an ORRS
funded student in the school they attend.
The specialist teacher is able to provide:
- Frequent
regular visits to school to deliver the 0.1 or 0.2 FTE of the ORRS
staffing component
- Programming
planning with classroom teachers and Teacher Aides
- Resources
adapted to student needs and capabilities
- Reporting
and attendance at IEP meeting
- Computer
/ technology assistance and advice with implementation of programmes
- Established
liaison processes with Special Education field staff
The additional benefits of an itinerating
service are:
- A team
of qualified Special Education teachers working on a regular basis with
students and classroom teachers in regular classroom programmes
- Reduced
difficulty for some schools in recruiting and retaining specialist
teachers interested in a long term career path
- Enhanced
professional development, support and supervision provided for the itinerating
teachers by Kimi Ora and Thorndon
Schools, along with
the Ministry of Education
- Increased
collegial support for the specialist teacher
The school who receives the Itinerant Service
transfers the ORRS staffing component to Kimi Ora School.
New students are admitted to the itinerent service at the beginning of each term.
Advice and support can be offered to schools prior to a student's enrolment.
For more information on the Itinerant Service contact
Don Stevens, Principal, Kimi Ora School principal@kimiora.school.nz; or
Bill Sutton, Principal, Thorndon
School, principal@thorndon.school.nz
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