Shadow Support
We provide individualised shadow support services for children who require additional support to manage their academic, behavioural, cognitive, and social challenges within their school systems. Students with behavioural issues, high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder, severe language learning difficulties, mild cognitive deficits, and/or ADHD may require shadow support as they struggle to integrate into classrooms and schools.
What is a Shadow Teacher?
By definition, a shadow teacher is an educational para-professional who works directly with a single child with additional needs in the school, therapy centre or home. Shadow teachers understand a variety of learning disabilities and how to support them accordingly. Providing a shadow teacher allows the child to attend a mainstream class while receiving the extra attention that he/she needs. Shadow teachers are often referred to as paraprofessionals, student aides, and teacher aides.
Provide classroom support
Provision of support for academic, behaviour, learning, social and communication skills and involving teaching pedagogy for children with various abilities
Communication with teachers
Helps your child’s teacher understand his/her strengths, challenges and learning difficulties
Collaborative Efforts
Works collaboratively with you and your child’s teacher in planning and implementing intervention plans for behaviours of concern
Regular Communication
Establish and maintain regular communication with caregivers and teachers
Intervention Planning
Design and implement interventions with a focus on teaching your child how to develop effective cognitive skills, learning strategies, personal and social skills.
What role does a Shadow Teacher perform?
The role of the shadow teacher is to fill gaps in the learning process, help students build confidence, help students focus on key concepts, and help students as a whole become more active in the classroom. The goal is to support students in schools by facilitating positive interactions. Develop academic and social skills. Every child is unique. Therefore, the approaches, teaching methods, and techniques used by each shadow teacher are tailored to the needs of each individual student.
A shadow teacher is a one-on-one educator who provides personalised support to students with special needs. The role of a shadow teacher is to ensure that the student has the tools needed to succeed in a mainstream classroom setting by providing individualised guidance and instruction tailored to the student's unique learning style. Shadow teachers provide support in academics, socialisation, and executive functioning skills.