Teachers here have been busy providing in-services for other support services beginning their tech journeys. Many are interested in the lessons we provide for our students delivered by tech means across KLAs and grades.
Many are surprised by the type of content an SSP provides in it's courses.
The old Institution view of 'Special Schools' as places built around deficit is more a misconception of the uninitiated.
Our specific special school puts an emphasis on the enabling qualities of technologyand what they do and might provide for the student with a specific need.
Tech comes and goes, teachers learn it, use it and teach it. In our setting more than most we adapt it.
All teachers in every school in the public network of schools across Australia are daily making learning more accessible to students. This is the context that a child with a learning difficulty, disability, behaviour or mental health problem lives in, a changing world with lots of learning to be done and technological change taking a bit part in that mix. Teachers work to make learning relevant to the individual child.
There are many programs that run simultaneously at our school. Like any busy school. Teachers here run those staple subjects of maths, english and science, tackle social and welfare issues and catering for need, preparing students for transition into the same world that everybody walks in, making the most of what is there.
