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DEFINITIONS

Personnel Supports

Personnel Support

Description of Service

General Education without special education support

Student with a disability is served in the general education class with no personnel support from a special education teacher (accommodations are used in the general education classroom).

General Education with Consultation

 

Student with a disability receives at least 1 segment per month of direct services from a special education teacher.

General Education with Supportive Instruction

Student with a disability receives service from personnel other than a certified teacher in the general education classroom (i.e., paraprofessional).

Collaboration

A special education teacher teaches with a general education teacher in the general education classroom less than the full segment per day or every other day.

Co-teaching

A special education teacher and a general education teacher teach in the general education classroom everyday for the entire segment.

Special Education

The special education teacher teaches in a special education classroom.

Departmental Model

Special education instruction is provided in a special education classroom, but by a variety of special education certified teachers throughout the day The student must be provided service at least one segment per day by a teacher certified in the student’s primary area of disability.

Related Vocational Instructional Program (RVI)

Provides support services to secondary students with disabilities enrolled in vocational education programs.

 

 

 

Valdosta City Schools, 1204 Williams St, PO Box 5407, Valdosta GA 31603-5407
(229) 333-8500, (229) 247-7757 (fax),
vboe@gocats.org

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