What is Special Education Teacher Support Services (SETSS)?
As your child's SETSS teacher, I work to ensure that your child has access to the general education curriculum through providing specifically tailored or differentiated instruction in the areas of reading, writing and/or mathematics. Through assessment of your child's academic strengths and needs, an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is developed in collaboration with parents and the classroom teacher. The IEP outlines specific learning goals to help your child achieve the general education standards and benchmarks.
As the SETSS teacher, I provide small group instruction either inside or outside of your child's classroom to support their academic work and help them achieve their individualized goals. SETSS small group instruction entails additional modeling and reinforcement of content and skills. I also work closely with classroom teachers to support instruction inside of the classroom and ensure your child has access to individualized tools and supports throughout the school day.
As the SETSS teacher, I provide small group instruction either inside or outside of your child's classroom to support their academic work and help them achieve their individualized goals. SETSS small group instruction entails additional modeling and reinforcement of content and skills. I also work closely with classroom teachers to support instruction inside of the classroom and ensure your child has access to individualized tools and supports throughout the school day.
Supporting your child at home
Collaboration between home and school is essential. Some general ways to support your child's learning include:
- Read aloud to your children. Children are exposed to vocabulary and content and world knowledge through reading. Reading aloud to your children also provides a strong model of fluent reading.
- Have your children read independently and to you. Independent reading allows kids to practice learned reading strategies. When kids encounter "tricky" words, encourage them to use their strategies rather than telling them the word(s).
- Talk to your children about books. For younger children, ask them about their favorite parts of books or character(s) and why. Encourage your children to make predictions about what might come next in the stories. For older readers, you may discuss the themes and social issues in books. Encourage kids to think about character motivations and how the setting may impact the mood of the story.
- Have your children write for every day purposes. Have your kids write invitations to birthday parties and thank you notes. Emails to relatives or friends near and far are also motivating ways to support and encourage writing.
- Promote and encourage spelling approximations. When kids are not sure how to spell words, you can encourage them to tap out the sounds they hear in words. Encourage kids to think about word parts or word families or even "little words" within the word they intend to spell.
- Have your children engage in math for every day purposes. Baking, cooking and building are wonderful ways to talk about and practice concepts of measurement, shape, etc.