Gather relevant details and information about the student provided by the teacher and other SLSOs or support staff.

•  
• Collect any relevant information from the student's existing Individual and learning support plan, where you are able to. (Depending on confidential nature of the existing plans the teacher might be limited in what they are able to share with you but may give you specific strategies to use.)
•  
• Gather information from the student (only if appropriate). There is no need to question the student, however the student might share incidental information with you via conversation or chats in class. e.g., interests, likes, dislikes. Please do not include student's personal or confidential information. Ensure the student's sense of safety and well-being is considered at all times.
•  

Include information about student strengths, interests, support needs, learning styles, challenges, triggers, calmers and any other relevant additional information

Using the Summary and Plan Tables below (Tables 4 and 5), insert the information into the relevant spaces under the appropriate headings.

• Using your findings from your three observations and all other information collected provide a summary of your information gathered to complete the table below.

Table4- Additional student information and summary

Summary of Student information	Information from 3 observations, teacher and other SLSO, student (only if applicable) and other information gathered.
Strengths
Interests
Learning Style/s
Challenges and barriers to learning
Triggers
Calmers
Additional information where relevant From the teacher, SLSO, student themselves, Specialists Additional communication needs Cultural needs Any important safety information for the student, peers and teaching and support staff.

Task 3 - Support Plan

Once you have completed task 1 and 2, you will now consult with the teacher and other relevant support staff to contribute to a support plan for the student.

For this task you need to complete the Support Plan template.

Table5- Support Plan

Plan	Planning strategies
Goals - Information from the Student's learning and Support Plan as shared by the teacher. How will you support the teacher with these?
Strategies, negotiations, boundaries and expectations Include at least 4 Ensure you include strategies from the Students Learning and Support Plan if available or strategies suggested by the Teacher and support team. Social skills and interactions In your strategies consider how you will support social skills and provide opportunities for positive social interactions Equipment and technologies Include any specific equipment, assistive technologies, communication technologies or resources needed to assist in supporting the student.
Applying strategies During the next week implement a minimum of three of the suggested strategies from your list. Make a note of the ones you used and any equipment you provided to support the student.
Reflections and evaluations of goals and support strategies List at least 2 strategies you used. Describe the effectiveness of these. What do you discuss with the teacher or other SLSO about the strategies?
Reporting student progress When working with this student and other students describe how you have recorded their progress in relation to their participation and tasks set.