Nuts and Bolts to Becoming a Successful School Based OT
New to providing OT in a school setting?
School systems have their own unique expectations and challenges. Between IEPs, scheduling, running groups, and learning educational-based goal setting – you might feel confident in your skills as an OT but overwhelmed with everything else that is new.
But you can do this, and don’t need to figure it out alone.
Jump into your school-based OT job with confidence with the mentoring program through World of OT. Our program seeks to support occupational therapists new to school settings.
Leave the course ready to:
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- Complete IEPs with confidence
- Understand the laws and terms unique to school OT
- Manage the unique routines of school OT using templates for caseload management
- Complete school-based evaluations with sample evaluations
- Efficiently write goals with assist of curated goal bank
- Problem-solve cases to provide effective intervention through case-studies and online support.
The course includes:
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- Self paced online presentations that covers the nuts and bolts related to school based OT with slides to reference to
- FAQs with real life applicable scenarios to refer back to anytime
And invaluable resources like -
System for workload management
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Templates for everything from keeping track of things, as well as screening and evaluating students
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List of common accommodations to include in IEPs and 504 plans
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Common suggestions for teachers to better support their students
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Sample screenings of observation and recommendations
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Sample evaluations
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Goal bank
All this…..while checking off CEU’s for the year!
You don’t need to dedicate time to developing every resource and skill for school-based OT. Instead, use the time to invest in yourself and give outstanding OT services. In doing so, you will feel equipped as a valued IEP team member, empowered to support the children you serve.
Ready to transform your journey?
Have questions? Let’s jump on a discovery call to help you decide if this is right for you!