Resource Room
Ms. Nancy Streeter, Mrs. Dee Albers (A.M.), Mrs. Abbi Swartzendruber (P.M.)
Para Educators - Mrs. Nancy Sysel, Mr. James Bennett, Mrs. Lisa Stolte (RTI only)
The Resource Room at Morley serves students from Kindergarten through 5th grade. Our first duty is to help children who have been identified with a disabiity. These disabilities include developmentally delayed, mentally handicapped, autistic, behaviorally disordered, learning disabled, and other health impaired.
Service to these children may be provided by a pull-out program where the child receives individualized instruction in the subject/s where they need additional help, or the service may be given within the regular classroom with the resource teacher and the regular education teacher team teaching a subject area.
The type of service given depends on the student's needs. When working in the classroom, the resource teacher helps other students besides those identified. Non-identified students may come to the resource room to get special help as well.
Another purpose of the resource program is to test identified and non-identified students and give classroom teachers feedback of instructional ideas that might be beneficial to students who are struggling in a particular area. The Resource Room is also a "warehouse" for materials (often things discarded by others), especially manipulatives, that all teachers can use.