School-Based Occupational Therapy Reflection

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In my place of practice in the school system, I have seen many changes occurs such as a change in service delivery and referral process for therapy services. My school district had adopted the Response to Intervention (RTI) and some teachers were not as quick to Buy-In to the changes in their curriculum routine or referral process for therapy services. The RTI was being implemented at a time when there was a change of administration over the county. Teachers were hesitant to follow the lead of new leadership when they were newly introduced to the new vision. When you work in the school system with the change of school leadership comes a change of new leadership vision. When staff members do not feel supported or valued they will change their place of employment. …show more content…

Some considerations leadership teams must keep in mind is everyone has strengths and experience which allows them to contribute to the team. The leaders should make the team members feel they have their support and valued (Simon, 2016). School-based occupational therapy practitioners are in a place to promote change by being proactive and advocating to meet the needs of their students. (Griffiths & Schmelzer, 2015). Some of the characteristic to being a change agent are flexibility, willingness to learn, critical thinkers and open to resistance (Griffiths & Schmelzer, 2015). The school-based occupational therapist has to learn to be flexible and have the willingness to adjust to the change in schedule, school climate, and leadership in each school

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