The overall goal of this program is to help students attain state established content standards and objectives, with emphasis on reading and language arts. This program works to improve educational opportunities of Title I students so that they succeed in the regular classroom, attain grade level proficiency, and increase achievement in basic and more advanced skills. Literature is chosen that focuses on children's background, reading levels, and interests. A combination of teacher-directed and learner-directed instruction is achieved with the use of cooperative learning strategies, lectures, modeling, self-paced tasks, and computer assisted instruction. The teacher focuses on higher level thinking throughout the year. Inferencing, drawing conclusions, identifying main ideas, cause and effect, logic, deductive reasoning, and open-ended questions help the student to develop these skills. Higher order tasks are linked with every day activities to give "a reason for doing" to the procedure. Materials and resources are provided to implement this program. The Title I Reading teachers works closely with the classroom teachers to coordinate a program that includes inclusion and small group instruction.
Elm Grove's Title I Math program's focus is to help our students attain state established content standards and objectives, with emphasis on mathematics problem solving and procedures. Our purpose is to provide educational opportunities so that Title I Math students succeed in the regular classroom. The Title I staff and classroom teachers work and plan together to develop these opportunities through various "hands on" in-class activities. These activities develop students' basic skills, as well as focus on developing advanced problem solving skills. Materials and resources are made available to all staff so that these activities can occur schoolwide. The Title I Math teacher works closely with the classroom teachers to coordinate a program that includes inclusion and small group instruction.
The roles of the Home School Intervention Counselor include: focusing on attendance and promote outreach and intervention to those students with poor attendance; promoting student well-being and retention through providing crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, and classroom guidance; and collaborating with faculty and other staff in order to best meet the needs of students..
Students benefiting from this specialized instruction often have difficulty with self-control, responsibility, and self-esteem. With consistency and guidance, the students are included in the regular education classrooms and remain there as long as positive behaviors are exhibited and the students fulfill their classroom responsibilities. A pull-out and self-contained setting are available on an as needed basis when students begin to struggle with day to day events. Students are monitored on a daily checklist, which serves as a communication tool between school and home -- an integral part of the program. A major goal of the program is for the students to be responsible and accept consequences for their behaviors, which in large part is achieved by consistency delivered by all people involved with the students. We work towards all students being successful on a daily basis across the total school setting.
Students identified with specific learning disabilities and those who are mildly mentally impaired are serviced by a certified LD/MI teacher. This teacher works closely with the regular classroom teacher to best determine the needs of the individual child. The children are then pretaught, re-taught, and remediated by the LD/MI teacher in a resource room and/or the regular classroom.
The Gifted program at Elm Grove Elementary is designed to service identified gifted children. Children who score 127 or above on a state approved IQ test are eligible for services according to West Virginia State Regulations. The program is intended to provide the identified gifted children with enrichment opportunities. This is done in the form of a small group pull out program. Identified students attend a resource room for their instruction. Instruction is primarily enriched language arts and mathematics. While in the resource room students are engaged in a variety of problem solving activities, creative writing and thinking as well as critical thinking activities. Students attend the class between one and two days per week for an hour each day.
The Severe/Profound Program at Elm Grove Elementary services children in Kindergarten through 5th grades. The focus of the program includes developing self-help, social/emotional, communication, cognitive and motor skills, as well as making choices. If eligible, students can receive physical, occupational, and/or speech/language and vision therapy. Positive behavior supports are also offered.
Another important aspect of our program is integration with regular education students. Our class is included in all resources with their peers, along with breakfast, lunch and all school assemblies/activities. We also have special peer buddies who interact with the children.
Parents and a team of professionals work together to develop the best possible plan to ensure a successful education experience.
The students are working on life skills and fine motor skills. They continue to work on pre-academic, academic, and listening skills. We are all looking forward to a great year together.
The Elm Grove Pre-School Disabilities Program is one, which is based on educating the whole child. We believe every child is capable of learning; therefor, an individual education plan is developed, based on the child's individual strengths and weakness. The Pre-School Program utilizes the Creative Curriculum and encourages discovery learning through center-based exploration.
The classroom is brightly decorated and provides several educational experiences for every child. The emphasis is on skill development, in the following areas:
Cognition, Speech/Language, Fine Motor Development, Gross Motor Developent, Daily Living Skills, Adaptive Living Skills, Personal/Social Development
The Preschool program consists of a preschool disability specialist, licensed speech, occupational, and physical therapists and teaching assistants. Early educational programming assists in providing the foundation for future success in school. Preschool is a place to learn, grow, and laugh!
The pre-school is divided into 2 half-a-day sessions. The morning class consists of 3 year olds who usually have not had any prior group experience. The main objective of the morning class is working on socialization skills. The children will be learning cooperation, sharing, and turn-taking skills and others through a wide varity of activities and games. A lot of the learning takes place through different arts-n-crafts projects.
The afternoon class is for 4 and 5 year olds who will be entering kindergarten the following school year. Since the children in the afternoon class have usually had some type of group experience before, the mail object of the afternoon class is academics. The children work on cognitive, fine motor and gross motor, social/emotional, and self-help skills that will help them prepare for the transition into kindergarten.
Along with the Fitnessgram fitness testing program, our students are taking part in many activites involving eye-hand coordination, balance, rhythm, manipulative activites, gross and fine motor devlopment, sports and recreation, flexibilty and strength development. Along with these activities we also incorporate some community-based events annually such as the Elks Hoop Shoot contest and the Jump Rope for Heart Event.
Kindergarten students come to the media once each week to hear stories and nursery rhymes from books, filmstrips and videos. Students in grades one through five have media class twice each week. They are encouraged to check out books or magazines. They learn how to be more independent in the library.
The Vocal/General Music program at Elm Grove Elementary School will be featuring all students in some type of producation each school year. Please mark your calendars as notices of your child's production come home. We want YOU in our audience.
In Ohio County Schools we are most fortunate to have strong visual arts prograns supported by our administartion. At Elm Grove Elementary we believe art education is fundamental to a child's learning. A traditional emphasis in visual arts education is taught by Mrs. Culler fostering creative expression, while developing artistic skills through drawing, painting, paper construction and sculpting. This traditional "hands-on" production approach collaborates with a national movement of "discipline-based" art education. This approach teaches children about the cultural and historical contributions of art and have to value, analyze and interpret works of art. Mrs. Culler often has her art projects teaching across the curriculum including connections with literature, language arts and social studies.
The 5th grade instrumental music program is centered around reading. Instruments are the tools used to communicate the sounds that the symbols represent, but reading and understanding these symbols are primary goals. It is the objective of the program to have every student reading well enough to play any music presented in such a manner as to make it fun to perform.
Strings at Elm Grove Elementary School is offered to all students in the 4th and 5th grades. The strings class meets for a half-hour, twice a week. The students use the books 1 & 2 titled "Essential Elements for Strings". The strings teacher at Elm Grove has been a teacher in Ohio County for 8 years and also teaches at Wheeling Park High, Bridge Street Middle, Wheeling Middle, Bethlehem Elementary, and Middle Creek Elementary schools. The Ohio County Strings program has grown to include over 300 students.
The Guidance Counselor is available for individual and group counseling on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in addition to conducting developmental guidance units in the classroom. Referrals may be made by parents, teachers and other staff members, as well as by the students themselves.
The Medical Staff of Ohio County approach the health needs of students in a preventive style. This is accomplished through several screening and educational programs.
The intent of our physical therapy program in Ohio County Schools is to enhance and improve the student's ability to participate and learn in the educational environment as well as to help promote functional independence.
Children involved in our physical therapy program are referred by their physician, teacher, and/or parent. A child must be assessed by a licensed physical therapist within the school system to determine eligibility for physical therapy services. At Elm Grove Elementary, children can be serviced for physical therapy from three years of age to the fifth grade level.
Elm Grove Elementary has a therapy room with a large variety of therapeutic equipment including suspended equipment. Children are seen either for direct services, group services, or consultative services. Frequency is based upon their needs and agreed upon with their caregiver through the IEP (individual education plan) process.
A child may be discharged from physical therapy services if:
1. They have accomplished all or nearly all of their IEP goals;
2. They are functionally independent;
3. Their progress has plateaued over a extended period of time and they have not made any significant changes therapeutically with intervention.
Occupational Therapy goal is to increase all functional skills. This includes the areas of play, self-care, and work. A child's work is his school day. When a child is referred for occupational therapy, a complete assessment is performed. The areas assessed include visual-motor, visual-perceptual, gross motor, balance, coordination, strength and reflexes. These are the foundation skills that are required for success in the academic setting. The goal of occupational therapy is to assist students become as independent and functional as possible, despite any limitations they may have. The Occupational Therapist works closely with the teacher to help provide any modifications and adaptions required to ensure success in the academic setting. A child is entitled to O.T. services if he/she has a learning or physical disability that hinders functional skills.
Last revision made in November 2006 .
