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Resource room

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In education & teaching, resource room means: A separate room in a regular school where students with special educational needs receive individual or small-group teaching for part of the day.

In Turkish: destek eğitim odası, kaynak oda

How it is used

Mainly American. Students go to or are pulled out to the resource room, and the resource teacher works with them there. It is often part of a mainstreaming or inclusion model.

Example sentences

  1. He spends two periods a day in the resource room working on reading.

  2. The resource room teacher and I plan the maths homework together.

Common collocations

  • resource room
  • resource teacher
  • pull-out support
  • go to the resource room
  • mainstreamingPlacing students with special educational needs in regular classes with their peers for some or all of the school day.
  • special educational needsLearning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for a child to learn than most children of the same age, so that the child needs extra or different support at school.
  • IEPIndividualized Education Program: a written plan for a student with special educational needs that sets out their goals, the support and services they will get, and how progress will be measured.
  • inclusive educationAn approach in which all children, including those with disabilities or other barriers to learning, learn together in ordinary schools and classes with the support they need.

More terms: Special and Inclusive Education

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