SERVICES

The service offers support to schools, parents and professionals with the objective of making a difference to the lives and learning of young people, teachers and families.

What Is Consultation?

School consultation is based on collaborative working and interactionist models of psychology. This means that we work closely with the people who know the child best in the context in which a concern appears. We look to find solutions with key people so that children can progress well in schools with everyone working together to maximise progress.

This approach has been developed and evaluated extensively in the U.K. in Education Psychology services and in EP training courses. It has been proven to be more effective than alternative methods which focus solely on formal individual assessment work, based on within-the-person models of psychology.

We know from the work that has been done over a significant period of time in the U.K. that school consultation is the most effective way of delivering EP services to school settings and families.

Schools and families have routinely been part of evaluations and the feedback is that school consultation is highly effective. It is now being adapted by Inspire especially for the Omani context.

Services offered

• Observation and assessment of an individual child or young person in the classroom context.
• Individual interview with a child or young person e.g exploring his/her constructs, views, concerns, approaches and processes in learning, as well as useful strategies and possible solutions to improve learning and achievement.
• Diagnostic thinking with a teacher or teachers about a child/group’s behaviour and developing understandings, strategies and interventions through this process.
• Supporting the developments of Individual education plans and programmes.
• Exploring classroom processes so as to maximize learning and pupil engagement.
• Exploring organisational effects on pupil behaviour so as to help the school improve social behaviour
• Joint school family work so that parents are involved and able to be supportive.
• Working with families when there are home-based concerns that affecting a child’s engagement in schooling and/or parental confidence in managing/coping.
• In- Service training (INSET) and workshops in relevant areas for teams of teachers or a whole – school staff.
• Input to parent-teacher meetings or governors’ meetings on the role of E.P. and aspects of psychology of schooling
• Linking with other professionals as appropriate and working as part of multi-agency team.