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See also...
Levels of Response
From the work undertaken by users of the Support Planner it has been possible to discern four common levels (or zones) of response to student needs. See Levels of Response
This tentative framework may be useful in terms of reviewing the school's practices, its stage of development and for planning future initiatives.
| 1. Ad hoc | 2. Reactive | 3. Responsive | 4. Proactive | 5. Capacity Building | |
| Basic concept and goal |
Containment | Deterrence | Resolution | Student
success & well-being |
Success & well-being for all |
| Common outcomes & experiences |
Re-patterned behaviour or rework |
Power struggle &/or rework |
Peace making and/or rework |
Reduced need for support | Improved school provision, arrangements & practices |
| Respondent
voices |
Person on the spot | Person on the spot and senior staff |
Staff | Staff, student, family & support services | School, staff, student, family, support services, community & profession |
| Data focus | Behaviour | Unacceptable behaviour & consequences | Inappropriate behaviour & school responses | Collated concerns, capabilities, goals, trends, contributions & responses | Areas of need & effectiveness of practices |
| Core strategy | Correction and/or distraction |
Implementing
'logical' consequences |
Monitoring & responding | Team
response,
matching interventions to concerns & capacities |
Sense making focused on match between needs & school practices |
| Time focus | Past | Past & present | Past, present &
immediate future |
Immediate past to near future | Ongoing |
| Tools | Humour,
stories complaints, timeouts, friendship, questions surprise |
Incident cards,
rules, contracts, timeouts, suspension... |
Records, reports,
agreements... |
IEPs, PSP, agreements, programs, reviews, team work | Plans, team work, targeted programs,
& school development based on summary reports |
| Knowledge Focus | Reputations
& situation |
Explanation of reaction | Basis for resolution | How to achieve shared success & well-being | Trends, implications & opportunities for school development |
|
Support Planner |
N/a | Recording | Monitoring
& reporting |
Coordinating,
collaborating, and continuous improvement for student |
Coordinating, collaboration, and continuous improvement of school provision and practices |
Workshop starter questions
1. What is our predominant level of response (and what does this communicate)?
2. What is our school / my personal response profile? Example, 15% ad hoc;30% reactive, 40% responsive; 15% proactive
3. What would we like to our profile to be by the end of the year?
4. How can we move in that direction?
5. What are our guidelines (official and unstated) for choosing the level of a response?
6. How can we build our capacity to make responses that better match the needs of our students, their families and ourselves?
7. What types of needs are attracting what levels of response from us?
8. What does this say about our purposes, values and capacity?
9. Other questions
Note: If anyone actually runs this activity I (and I think others too) would
be really interested in the outcomes. Could be very interesting!!!
