Inclusive Education
The major components of the strategy for managing students at educational risk are:
- encouragement of collaborative efforts amongst families, communities, schools and other professional staff;
- development of procedures and guidelines for teachers to assist in identification and intervention;
- strengthened accountability processes to demonstrate that the needs of identified students are being met; and
- diffusion of good practice and support for the extension of good practice models.
The Education Department recognises the scope and nature of the challenges faced by students at educational risk, their parents and teachers. The purpose of this policy is therefore to establish school practices, which support students at educational risk to develop the understandings, skills, and confidence to achieve their individual potential.
Students at educational risk are:
“those students who may be at risk of not achieving the major learning outcomes of schooling to levels which enable them to achieve their potential.”
Students at educational risk may be characterised as students:
- who are at risk of not achieving the outcomes described in the Curriculum Framework
- whose achievement level, rate of progress or behaviour differs noticeably from past performances and/or that of his/her peers
- who are under-performing
- who are not engaged in their schooling.
