The PST or Problem Solving Team provides a school-based mechanism to enable school personnel to
meet the needs of individual children within the building who
require review or problem-solving to ensure success.
The PST Team
is child-centered and facilitates a process that may result in the
implementation of accommodations, services and interventions that
will enable the student to be successful in school. The options to
be considered exist along a wide continuum of support ranging from
minor accommodations in the classroom to more intensive
interventions.
Each school in West
Irondequoit has a PST or Problem Solving Team that meets
regularly to problem solve, monitor and adjust support plans for student success. The team consists of the
principal, and a variety of team members. Teachers or administrators
may refer a child. Parents who have concerns regarding their child
can talk to their child’s teacher or school counselor to discuss
whether a referral to PPS is warranted.
There are several possible outcomes of a PST Team referral from
minor accommodations in the classroom to more intensive
interventions. When, and only when, all other options have been
exhausted, the student might be referred to the Committee on Special
Education for possible participation in a special education program
to meet their individual needs. Sometimes the team may recommend
that further diagnostic testing, counseling or medical evaluation be
completed. The goal of the PST Team is to look carefully at a
student’s learning profile and to provide an educational program
that will be successful and promote the student success so they can
reach their highest potential.