Home-bound Instruction is provided in the home when the student is experiencing ongoing episodes of an intermittent illness.
Hospital Instruction is provided when the student is hospitalized. At Simpson Academy for Young Women, many of our students go on home-bound when they have their babies.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Home-bound Coordinator (Ms. Cooper):
Roles and Responsibilities of the Teacher during home-bound:
Hospital Instruction is provided when the student is hospitalized. At Simpson Academy for Young Women, many of our students go on home-bound when they have their babies.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Home-bound Coordinator (Ms. Cooper):
- Obtain a completed medical referral from a certified physician specifying the medical condition
- that necessitates an adjustment of the student’s educational program
- Identify a teacher (preferably the classroom teacher) to provide home-bound services
- Maintain a record of communication with parents, home-bound teacher(s) and other pertinent persons (i.e. related service providers)
- Coordinate the Educational Planning Conference and/or IEP meeting
- Serve as the liaison between the classroom teacher, home-bound teacher, and hospital teacher
- Update student information
- Facilitate activities and communications leading to appropriate services for student’s home,
- hospital, or intermittent instructional services
- Provide a complete set of home and hospital instruction forms to the classroom teacher and parent, when appropriate
- Gather student classroom assignments, books, and teacher keys (when available) in a timely manner (Please note that the curriculum should be modified, when appropriate.)
- Facilitate the initiation of 504 Plan for students with chronic medical and health issues
Roles and Responsibilities of the Teacher during home-bound:
- Participate in the Educational Planning Conference and/or IEP meeting
- Collaborate with the home and hospital instruction teacher
- (face-to-face) at least once a week
- Provide daily work, assignments, quizzes, and tests to the home-bound teacher
- Modify assignments, when appropriate, with the input from the home-bound Coordinator
- Issue grades in consultation with the home-bound teacher
- Provide answer key for home-bound and hospital Teacher