Transcript Student Services - Sir Robert Borden High School

SRB Student Services:
Guidance, Student Success and
Special Education
School Council Presentation
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The Role of Student
Services
• To provide support and counselling to
students in the areas of academics,
educational choices, career goals, and
personal concerns
• To act in a consultative and
supportive role to parents and staff
Guidance:
Educational Counselling
• Course selection
• Timetable issues
• Pathway planning based on interests,
abilities and goals
• Post-secondary application process
• Financial assistance (e.g., scholarship
information and OSAP)
Educational Counselling
(cont’d)
• Online course registration
• Night school and summer school
registration
• International students and exchange
students
Guidance:
Personal Counselling
• Listen to personal concerns
• Explore alternatives and/or solutions
• Make referrals to the Learning
Support Teacher, Student Success
Teacher, or OCDSB Learning Support
Services staff
• Offer community resources when
needed
• Youth Services Bureau
Guidance:
Career Counselling
• Explore career options with students
• Assist in the research of post-secondary
destinations (e.g., college, apprenticeship,
and university)
• Promote experiential learning
opportunities
– such as Co-operative Education, Focus Programs, Specialist
High Skills Major, Dual Credits Program and Take our Kids to
Work Day
• Provide career planning presentations to
grade 11 and 12 students
Co-operative Education
• Students earn high school credits
while gaining valuable work
experience
• Allows students to “test-drive” a
career
• 110 hours = one credit
• Ontario Youth Apprenticeship
Program (OYAP) enables students to
acquire on-the-job training in a
Our Guidance Staff
• 2.5 guidance counsellors for just over 900
students:
• (based on student enrolment; subject to change
**new distribution this week)
– Edie Bonisteel (A-I)
– Mary Anne Mayhew (J-O)
– Mark Mullins (P-Z)
• One half-time guidance secretary:
– Norine Arbuthnot
NEW THIS YEAR!
• SRB will have a Masters’ candidate in our
guidance department
– Masters’ in Educational Counselling
– Will be here every Wednesday and Thursday
– Will meet with every grade 9 student to
introduce him/her to the guidance department
• Any concerns raised will be shared with the
appropriate guidance counsellor
The Referral Process
• Referrals are made through our guidance
counsellors and/or as part of our weekly
multi-disciplinary team meetings
• Parent/guardian consent is required for
referrals to the psychologist, social
worker, or other members of Learning
Support Services
– Except for in the case of counselling, where a student 12 years
old and up can give consent
• Interventions are short-term
• May involve referrals to community based supports
and services
OCDSB Professional
Support
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School Psychologist
School Social Worker
Itinerant Educational Assistant (IEA)
Learning Support Consultant (LSC)
School Resource Officer (SRO)
Spiritual Care Worker
Multi-cultural Liaison Officer (MLO)
Public Health Nurse
Student Success
Program
• Additional support for students who
are at risk for academic failure
• Proactive approach
• Includes academic help at lunchtime,
credit rescue and/or credit recovery
• Credit rescue and credit recovery
can only be accessed through our
referral process
Special Education
• Supports and services for students who
have been assessed as having special
learning needs
• Individual Education Plans (IEPs) are
developed annually for students who
require ongoing support instructional,
environmental and/or assessment
accommodations
– approximately 20% of our school population have IEPs
Special Education (con’t)
• A student who is struggling academically,
and not being successful through
traditional means may be a suitable
candidate for an educational assessment
done by the Learning Support Teacher
• SRB is one of three high schools that has a
specialized program for students who have
severe learning disabilities
– Applications are made to a central committee
In Summary
• Our goal is to support student
learning and achievement