• Consultant Teacher Services (CT)/Resource Room Program (RR)

    Consultant Teacher Services (CT) is specially designed and/or supplemental instruction provided by a special education teacher that can help your child stay in the general education classroom. CT may be provided for as few as three hours per week and as much as 50% of each school day. Your child’s IEP must indicate:

    • The number of periods a week that the services will be provided
    • Where they will be provided, and
    • Whether those services will be provided directly or indirectly, as described above. 

    CT happens in two ways:

    Direct Instruction - The special education teacher may work directly with your child and provide direct specially designed and/or supplemental instruction to your child. The special education teacher may adapt the subject matter (“modified curriculum”) and/or use visual aids, highlighted work sheets, simpliļ¬ed directions, and other kinds of “modified instruction.”

    Indirect Instruction - The special education teacher may also work with your child’s general education teacher to adjust the learning environment and/or modify and adapt instructional techniques and methods to meet your child’s individual needs. 

     

    Resource Room (RR) is a special education program for a student with a disability registered in either a special class or general education class who is in need of specialized supplementary instruction in an individual or small group setting for a portion of the school day. Resource room programs are for the purpose of supplementing the general education or special education classroom instruction of students with disabilities who are in need of such supplemental programs. This means that instruction is not provided in place of the student's regular academic instruction.



    Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) classrooms include students with and without disabilities and have two teachers, a general education teacher and a special education teacher. Read More »