ABSTRACT
One of the most widely-used consultative models in school psychology, instructional consultation (IC), combines the use of consultee-centered consultation (CCC) with school staff in the service of improving children’s academic achievement skills. In the first chapter, Barrett and colleagues (2017) noted that exposure to various consultation models (particularly behavioral and instructional consultation, but with depth) is positively correlated with consultee-in-training self-assurance in consultation. Investigators have found that in over half of school psychology graduate training programs (identified as being approved by the National Association of School Psychologists or the American Psychological Association) instructional consultation was taught to their graduate students. The primary goal of IC is to develop and maintain students’ academic achievement within the general education classroom by improving the capacity of teachers to use empirically-supported instructional and management strategies to assist struggling students.
