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Our Vision & Mission statement
- Our vision is to be the most student-centred, evidence-based Company in the field of Education and Special Education.
- Our Mission Statement is to:
- Achieve equity: Ensuring that with Esybee, every student will have the same opportunity to succeed, with a particular focus on closing the poverty-related learning environment and scaffolding them to succeed.
- Achieve Excellent Results: Ensuring that every student achieves the highest standards in their learning, set out within Curriculum for Excellence levels, and the high range of skills, qualifications and achievements to allow them to succeed.
Accommodation & Modification
According to www.accessibility.harvard.edu, an accommodation is a change, alteration or modification to a policy, practice or procedure (or the way things are customarily done), that provides an equal opportunity to an individual with a disability. Modification is instructions or adaptations that allow a student to demonstrate what he knows or can do, but the target skill reduces. The modification usually lower performance expectations. www.dyslexiaida.org.
The accommodation changes "how" the student learns the material, while the modification changes "what" a student is taught or expect to learn.
Assessment
In Education, the term "Assessment" refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students (2015, www.edglossary.org ).
An assessment in special education is the process used to determine a student's specific learning strengths and needs and to determine whether or not this student is eligible for special education services. It's primarily a problem-solving process. Esybee assessment tools enable educators to create formative, summative and benchmark assessments with ease, align to standards and store results to be used in the intervention program. In the Dashboard, the assessment updates in real-time so teachers and special teachers can immediately adapt instruction to eliminate learning gaps, the principal can follow the student educational program while the students follow their own learning and parents is follow and manage their child’s learning process.
The Learning Management Platform Esybee have two interventions Program: The RTI Program and Special Education Program
Response to Intervention RTI Program
According to www.rtinetwork.org, Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behaviour needs. The RTI process begins with high-quality instruction and universal screening of all children in the general education classroom.
Special Education refers to a range of educational and social services provided by the public school system and other educational institutions to individuals with disabilities.
The Tiers Of Intervention
* RtI is a multi-tiered system of intervention that is organized into levels of instructions that increase in intensity based on the identified needs, and then the response of the student. The tiers originate in the delivery of the core curriculum and differentiated classroom instruction at the first level (Tier 1), and then progress to small group instruction that can be provided either in the classroom, or in pull-out settings, at the second level (Tier 2). The third level of intervention (Tier 3) in the RtI model focuses on those students not making adequate progress in Tier 2 and includes more intensive small group or 1:1 intervention, (see Figure 1). Failure to respond at Tier 3 should initiate the formal procedure for evaluating a student for special education services, however referral could occur any time during any Tier.
*Swartz, S., Geraghty-Jenkinson, C., & Franklin-Giy, S. (2011). Response to intervention (RtI): Implementation and legal issues. Dayton, OH: Education Law Association.
Esybee offers a range of features to support education needs, ensuring that students with diverse learning requirements receive the necessary resources and accommodations. Esybee allows educators to create customized learning plans for students with special needs, tailoring the curriculum, assessments, and learning materials to accommodate individual learning styles and requirements.
Special Education Program
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn - Ignacio Estrada
Special education (also known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, special ed. or SPED) is educating students to address their differences and special needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials, and accessible settings.
Special education includes learning disabilities (such as dyslexia), communication disorders, emotional and behavioural disorders (such as ADHD), physical disabilities (such as osteogenesis imperfecta, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, and Friedreich's ataxia), and developmental disabilities (such as autistic spectrum disorders including autism and Asperger syndrome and intellectual disability) and many other disabilities. Students with these kinds of disabilities are likely to benefit from additional educational services such as different approaches to teaching, the use of technology, a specifically adapted teaching area, or a resource room. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_education).
At the LSM Esybee, the process leading to the Special Education Program is self-explanatory. The system there is 5 phases: It starts with the Progress Monitoring at the Grade Book, following by, Recognition phase, the Pre-Referral and Referral phase where temporary Accommodations for students are sets up, following by the use of formal and informal assessment to identify, develop, and implement alternative education strategies for students who have recognised problems in the classroom. The process uses a more traditional and systematic methodology and scientifically method- Response to Intervention, RTI program. The introduction of RTI - with 3 Tiers of intervention is the first program presented in the Esybee platform to help identifies students who are not making adequate progress in the classroom, leading to teacher's instructions designed to meet their specific needs. The success of this intervention is monitored and then redesigned and modified based on individual assessment results. If a student doesn't show progress in Tier 3, the student may need to be assessed with a formal assessment to get a proper diagnosis and moved into the Special Education Program.
The official referral process initiates the formal process of "Eligibility" for Special Education Services, and the team will form the standard Individualised Education Plan (IEP) to develop a plan of Special Education Services for the student. The IEP is the primary component of the Special Education Program and an official contract between the student's parents and the school (school district in some countries) that describes the individual education program to be delivered. The document lays out a Special Education Pran designed to meet a student's unique needs and written with instructions and support to progress and thrive in school. To be assured that the IEP reflect the student's educational and social needs, the plan needs to base on: Present Level of performance, included baseline (PLOP); Eligibility Process; Smart and Realistic Annual Goals; Social Consideration; Measuring and Progress Monitoring; Special Education Services for the student, included the choice of Teaching and Educational Strategies and Differentiate Instruction; Duration of the service; Participation in Mainstream Classrooms, types of Accommodation and Modification; Statement of Transition and Re-Evaluation Process.
The implementation must occur as soon as the IEP develops. The school will annually evaluate the student's progress toward meeting their IEP goals unless the IEP team and the student's parents agree otherwise. Esybee recommends otherwise that the annual review should occur within 12 months following the development of the previous IEP.