Several expressed a desire to participate in training sessions with other teachers in different grade levels and from other schools. Opportunities for cross-training of this kind would permit teachers to share strategies and materials and allow for smoother student transitions from one grade to the next. January 1998 2. Administrative program directors schedule the training sessions and notify principals of planned sessions. February 1998 3.
Program directors facilitate the training.
February 1998 through May 1998 4. The assistant superintendent, principals, and teachers monitor training effectiveness. This recommendation would have no fiscal impact. The review team, however, was told by some teachers and program directors that often substitutes for special population classes are selected from the regular pool of substitutes and are not well enough equipped to provide successful assistance. SISD should design staff development including appropriate laws, specific SISD procedures, modified curriculum, and special learning and behavioral conditions associated with teaching special populations students and provide this training to substitutes wishing to serve in these classes.