Arts of Life

Instructional consultation is a stage-based problem-solving process that brings the school psychologist, as a consultant, and the teacher, as consultee, together to focus on school-based academic and behavioral concerns. Teachers bring concerns about students to the instructional consultant, as is typically done in other forms of school consultation. One of the unique
aspects of instructional consultation, however, is the focus on academic concerns within an ecological framework. Although behavioral, as well as instruc-tional, concerns are brought to the instructional consultant,
appropriate academic progress is a pervasive consideration because of its centrality to the goals of schooling.

In this chapter,...