Mapping Support Programs for Students at Risk

How you use the right-hand side of the spreadsheet is entirely up to you. You decide the column headings, and your decide how to map student participation. You can use colour and codes to help you ‘read’ the map quickly.

Mapping the support programs in your school might sound straightforward, however, the first time you do it this can be a slow process.

First you must identify the different kinds of support program being offered by your school. This includes

• one-on-one support by a teacher for a student who has been absent due to illness
• participation in a formal Youth Pathways Program, or
• participation in a lunchtime program for boys about appropriate behaviours.

All staff should be consulted about the kinds of support the school brokers and delivers.

You may wish to use abbreviations or codes for certain programs to protect the privacy of students who are working with the school psychologist or Family Services.

Student wellbeing staff can not provide confidential information, but could indicate that a student is being closely supported by student wellbeing staff.

All relevant staff should supply lists of which students are engaged in which programs. Once this data is entered onto the ‘master spreadsheet’ it will reappear when the spreadsheet is ‘refreshed’. Relevant staff will then need to review it to add or remove students from support programs.

See Using the Student Mapping Tool, as you are ready to format your data so that it can be read more easily.