School social worker is School social worker is effective in School social worker needs School social worker is Indicator 2.3: highly effective in assessing the needs of the improvement in assessing the ineffective in assessing assessing the needs of community, sub-groups of needs of the school-wide the needs of the the school-wide students, and individual clients community, sub-groups of community, Assessment Services community, sub-groups utilizing appropriate, culturally students, and individual clients of students, and of students, and competent, assessment techniques utilizing appropriate , individual clients utilizing individual clients utilizing and instruments to determine the culturally competent, appropriate, culturally appropriate, culturally appropriate intervention. assessment techniques and competent, assessment competent, assessment instruments to determine the techniques and techniques and appropriate intervention. instruments to instruments to determine the determine the appropriate intervention. appropriate intervention. For level 4, all of the School social worker completes a School social worker relies School social worker evidence listed under thorough needs assessment prior primarily on a teacher or relies solely on a teacher Level 3 is present, as well to beginning school social work parent referral to determine or parent referral to as the following:- services utilizing a variety of the school social work service determine the school culturally competent, assessment provided to an individual or social work service School social worker tools including :- group of students. provided to an individual knows how to assess or group of students. school-wide barriers to a teacher or parent referral School social worker does student and school identifying the behaviors that are access student data, parent or School social worker success, such as preventing the student(s) from student interview, or does not access student being successful, community information prior data, parent or student excessively high numbers to determining an appropriate interview, or community of student suspensions student data, parent or student intervention information prior to and expulsions, in order interview/ social history, and, when determining an to assist school appropriate, community But typically does not:- appropriate intervention leadership teams in information, planning school reform. become familiar with, or School social worker is culturally appropriate assessment choose to utilize, culturally not familiar with, and/or instruments, competent, assessment does not utilize, instruments to complete a assessment instruments serving on a multidisciplinary team thorough assessment prior to to complete a thorough to identify student strengths and planning an intervention, assessment prior to needs, and planning an intervention
Indicator 2.3: Assessment Services School social worker is highly effective in assessing the needs of the school-wide community, sub-groups of students, and individual clients utilizing appropriate, culturally competent, assessment techniques and instruments to determine the appropriate intervention. School social worker is effective in assessing the needs of the community, sub-groups of students, and individual clients utilizing appropriate, culturally competent, assessment techniques and instruments to determine the appropriate intervention. School social worker needs improvement in assessing the needs of the school-wide community, sub-groups of students, and individual clients utilizing appropriate , culturally competent, assessment techniques and instruments to determine the appropriate intervention. School social worker is ineffective in assessing the needs of the community, of students, and individual clients utilizing appropriate, culturally competent, assessment techniques and instruments to determine the appropriate intervention. For level 4, all of the evidence listed under Level 3 is present, as well as the following:- School social worker knows how to assess school-wide barriers to student and school success, such as excessively high numbers of student suspensions and expulsions, in order to assist school leadership teams in planning school reform. School social worker completes a thorough needs assessment prior to beginning school social work services utilizing a variety of culturally competent, assessment tools including :- a teacher or parent referral identifying the behaviors that are preventing the student(s) from being successful, student data, parent or student interview/ social history, and, when appropriate, community information, culturally appropriate assessment instruments, serving on a multidisciplinary team to identify student strengths and needs, and School social worker relies primarily on a teacher or parent referral to determine the school social work service provided to an individual or group of students. School social worker does access student data, parent or student interview, or community information prior to determining an appropriate intervention But typically does not:- become familiar with, or choose to utilize, culturally competent, assessment instruments to complete a thorough assessment prior to planning an intervention, School social worker relies solely on a teacher or parent referral to determine the school social work service provided to an individual or group of students. School social worker does not access student data, parent or student interview, or community information prior to determining an appropriate intervention School social worker is not familiar with, and/or does not utilize, assessment instruments to complete a thorough assessment prior to planning an intervention
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