Learning Support
ASB is committed to an inclusive and welcoming educational environment for every learner.
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Learning Support
The Learning Support Department helps students become independent learners through early identification, family collaboration, and differentiated instruction.
The inclusive classroom at ASB is a place where students feel valued, engaged, safe, and secure.
- Learning Support Department
The American School of Benguerir is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming educational environment where students feel supported, encouraged, independent, and appreciated.
The Learning Support Department strives to assist students to become independent learners. The department adopts a multi-tiered approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs in collaboration with ASB staff and families.
We expect to move all students toward greater engagement, academic success, and social and emotional growth by providing high-quality, differentiated instruction.
Student Needs
All staff at ASB aim to support a variety of student needs, including learning needs, gifted and talented needs, ESL needs, and social-emotional needs.
Communication
Open and respectful communication helps students advocate for their needs.
Differentiation
Teachers provide varied methods, flexible groups, differentiated instruction, and assessment.
Safe Environment
Clear routines, clear expectations, accommodations, and support help students access learning.
Inclusive Practices
ASB recognizes that students have different educational and learning needs, abilities, profiles, and aspirations. Differentiation and scaffolding promote effective learning, and students gain knowledge and skills at different rates through different means.
Professional development training on inclusive practices and differentiation is delivered during staff orientation, Wednesday afternoon workshops, and other internal and external learning opportunities.
Data and Eligibility
Staff continually gather information about a student's academic performance and behavior under increasingly intensive levels of instructional support. Data includes quarterly benchmarking results, MAP test results, progress monitoring, behavior and attendance reports, grades, and anecdotal observations.
The eligibility process consists of three steps: referral, evaluation, and determination of eligibility.
