A Class-wide Consultation involves working closely with the classroom teacher to help develop the overall classroom goals, structure, curriculum, behaviour support plan, etc. Alternately, POPARD may provide a Program Consultation to an itinerant or school-based resource teacher. Program Consultation may include such topics as: case management, supporting students who are in inclusive classrooms, demonstrating how to adapt and modify regular ed curriculum to support inclusion, creating IEPs, providing effective consultation, advocating for your students, working effectively with parents, etc.

For a class wide or program consult to occur, there must be more than one student with Autism in the class or on the Caseload of the itinerant or school-based resource teachers.

The class-wide/program consultation service consists of a series of meetings and in-person visits. Each meeting has a unique purpose to support the consultation process; the meetings involve relationship-building, analysis of systems level context, identification and analysis of the desired focus, action plan development, and progress monitoring and feedback.

An Implementation Plan is developed at a consultation meeting, recognizing that a one-time visit and discussion of best practices is not sufficient to enable the team to follow through and successfully implement changes to their classroom environments and practice. POPARD is committed to helping school teams implement the plans they co-develop.

The goal of POPARD’s consultation model is to work with the team to develop a manageable action plan that can be implemented with local support. The plan may involve the POPARD consultant providing support to the school team to effectively and accurately implement the selected strategies.

Additionally, teachers are expected to self-reflect and monitor their progress throughout the consultation.

POPARD’s model of consultation includes: