The Building Connections class services multiple disabled students in grades Kindergarten, First, Second and Third grade.
Features of the Classroom
Features of the Classroom
- Direct instruction in cognitive behavioral therapy to enable students to appropriately deal with stress, disappointment, change, and following an agenda that is not their own.
- Clinical component through an outside agency that would provide therapeutic intervention in the form of individual therapy, group counseling, teacher/staff training, parent training and counseling.
- Special education that would address individual academic needs more closely following to the general education curriculum.
- Allows the district to educate students in home district while providing therapeutic support not routinely featured in public school programs.
- Access to agency professionals, such as doctors, clinical social workers, psychologists.
- Opportunity to provide in-service to greater school community to create an awareness of the emotional needs of students and to learn strategies to effectively and positively intervene on their behalf.
- Provides the opportunity to explore other grant opportunities as the school culture becomes aware of this increasing need.
- Intervening at younger age may prevent the escalation of certain negative behaviors and provide supported instruction that can be practiced and generalized with "therapeutic coaching" in the natural setting.
- Students receive daily social skills lessons utilizing the "POWER-Solving" method. This method gives each student the confidence and skills to interact positively in the general education setting. It also allows students to use problems solving skills and become aware of their emotions.