Targeted support and strategies

At ISD, we guide and encourage our students to meet their potential, while acknowledging and 
addressing their learning differences. We offer targeted support and teach appropriate strategies to 
transfer learning from various classroom settings. We regularly confer with students, parents, subject 
teachers, and any other professionals involved in a student’s development to design the best possible 
independent educational plan with long-term goals and short-term objectives. 

When collaborating with subject teachers, we jointly determine a student’s gaps and learning skills. 
We also address assignments and questions about the student’s present levels of performance. 

To gain a realistic understanding of their behaviours, we help our students use their learner profile to 
identify areas of strength and areas with needs for further development. This guides the students in 
understanding how their efforts and use of time have a direct impact on their learning. Students are 
then introduced and encouraged to put into practice diverse strategies from the following areas: 
memory, organisation and time management, work habits, study habits, health and well-being, literacy 
and numeracy skills. 

In addition, we employ a referral process that is initiated by a student’s year head and developed in 
conjunction with the parents. This entails creating and sharing a full psychological educational 
assessment which states the learning needs of the student. The assessment also makes 
recommendations for specific accommodations and/or modifications.

An individualised education plan (IEP), containing learning goals broken down into learning 
outcomes, is developed for each student.