What is a School-based Team (SBT)?
A school-based team (SBT) is a team of school staff members, also known as multidisciplinary team or child study team in Lebanon, who serve as problem solvers. Their role is to assist classroom teachers in developing and implementing instructional and management strategies as well as coordinate support resources beneficial to the child in the school.
School-based teams (SBT) are mediators who help connect everything and everyone to ensure the best services to the child with special needs. SBTs are responsible for:
In Lebanon, the responsibilities of a SBT varies from those listed above. The SBT gather up feedback from the teachers involved and share it to the parents and then it is up to the special education coordinator to decide what the next step is.
The SBT is formed from two main categories; from members who work in school and others who work out of school. Such people have a great impact on the child’s overall learning process and thus work collaboratively in planning, assessing and programming. In-school teams work with the child on a daily basis whereas the support team tends to work in correlation with the in-school team and with the child less often.
The SBT usually consists of the following members found in the diagram below (although some may vary depending on school size, child’s needs and the school system):
School-based teams (SBT) are mediators who help connect everything and everyone to ensure the best services to the child with special needs. SBTs are responsible for:
- Taking responsibility for shared decision making
- Collecting and sharing information
- On-going referral process
- Active services
- Assessment needs
- Involvement of parents along with teachers when planning
- Identification of common concerns and problem solving
- Development of IEP
- Preventive measures
- Formulate intervention strategies
- Case management
- Monitoring
In Lebanon, the responsibilities of a SBT varies from those listed above. The SBT gather up feedback from the teachers involved and share it to the parents and then it is up to the special education coordinator to decide what the next step is.
The SBT is formed from two main categories; from members who work in school and others who work out of school. Such people have a great impact on the child’s overall learning process and thus work collaboratively in planning, assessing and programming. In-school teams work with the child on a daily basis whereas the support team tends to work in correlation with the in-school team and with the child less often.
The SBT usually consists of the following members found in the diagram below (although some may vary depending on school size, child’s needs and the school system):