Are you sure they are going to buy this?

It seems too appropriate and too good to be true!

Putting in the procedures and infrastructure so that the world will buy this as the most appropriate and legitimate approach for working with students with complex ID

Introducing Intensive Interaction to Southport

Special School

August 2010: Introducing Intensive Interaction to students

and staff in my class Informal discussions with colleagues Discussions with Administration

Toes in the water

2011:Current Head of Curriculum supportive of change Janee Williamson one day course for selected staffSmall amount of time given on Student Free Days for PD about appropriate approaches for students with complex IDsWorking with and advising staff around me

Up to our knees

2012:New Head of Curriculum with a knowledge of and interest in Intensive InteractionSmall group training in II for teachers and TAs from throughout the school8 Day CourseIntroduction of formal Moderation and Mentoring program

Up to our waist and splashing about

2013:New role: Music and Intensive Interaction SupportSmall group training, Moderation and MentoringEstablishing a class whose focus was II in the main body of the schoolVisit Mt Ommaney Online interschool Moderation

The year we got our hair wet

The year we got our hair wet

Intensive Interaction Protocols for the school

Guidelines on the use of Touch Pedagogical Framework: making sure that

Intensive Interaction was on the agenda Starting the process of longitudinal record

keeping of both student and staff involvement in Intensive Interaction

2014: New Deputy Principal: II becomes a priority

on the timetable Classes especially created with an Intensive

Interaction focus Music 2/3, Intensive Interaction Support 1/3 Increased time made available for

Moderation and Mentoring

Doing the breaststroke

Greater opportunities for staff PD in school

and from E.Q. Parental Involvement Independent Public School: supporting our

commitment to Intensive Interaction Embedding II in the Pedagogical

Framework

Doing the breaststroke

The Future:The analysis of longitudinal dataThe transition of our students who need II into their post school life. Expanding the II Team/ a discrete team within the schoolIdentifying more students for whom II would be beneficial

Surfing the waves?

Surfing the waves?