Team teaching

A second teacher goes into a class to assist the main teacher.  

Separate support class

Create a separate class to hold a small group of students and a teacher who will mark that class’s roll.  Often this class is one of several for a subject that are blocked to run at the same time, using link or line.  

For example: All Maths classes run at the same time on a line or large block and an extra class is created to hold a small number of students.

Withdrawal from regular class

The support teacher withdraws some students from their core class.  

1. Create a separate class to hold the teacher and the students. Link this class to the main class.  Add the new lessons to required periods.
2. There is now a clash on the student's timetable.
3. Set the support class as the priority (hides the clash) via Admins > Settings > Classes.
4. The student will now see the Priority class where there used to be a clash.

For example: A student is withdrawn from several lessons of a regular class to receive extra tuition.  The school reports on the student’s enrolment in both the regular and the extra class.

Dedicated support unit

When a 'Basic' or 'Advanced' sync is performed, the  created 'Support/SUP' year level students  will revert to their original Academic years as 3rd party systems do not support custom made year levels.

Dedicated Year Level  for Support Staff

This option is useful for schools that have a larger number of educational support staff, such as teacher aides, Learning Support Assistants or SLSOs. The creation of a dedicated year level enables the addition of multiple instances of additional support without changing the class data in the regular Year levels.

Step 1

Create a dedicated Year level in Setup > Year levels:

Step 2 

Add support teachers to the teacher data screen. Schools may find it useful to prefix all support staff with an ‘S_’ to distinguish them from teaching staff and assign a specific maximum load. 

Step 3

Add classes to newly created ‘Support Year Level’ in class data. Change the number of periods to match the periods of support granted to each class (1). Link the support class to the parent class (2). Set room to ‘None’(3). Support staff can be assigned to classes either by hardcoding in class data, or later assigned through the Teachers > Faculty Timetables.

It is advisable to add a class that covers every teaching period in the grid structure to avoid getting any structural errors (4) and assign it an entry in the line column.   

Step 4

Add classes to the grid in Classes > Year Timetables by clicking and dragging from the ‘Need Period’ row. Ensure to place the class at the same time as the parent class by avoiding periods with the red ‘S’.