An
educational diagnostician is a person who helps figure out a student's learning needs and difficulties. They do tests and assessments to understand why a student is struggling and what type of support they might need in their education.
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Please do not demand a conference and bring
your educational diagnostician to argue that your child deserves an A.
Our school staff includes a principal, assistant principal, LSSP,
educational diagnostician, registrar, core content teachers (English, math, science, and social studies), a P.E. teacher, a life college guide, and instructional assistants.
Our school staff includes a principal, assistant principal,
educational diagnostician, registrar, five core content teachers (math, science, social studies, and English), a P.E. teacher, a technology assistant, and seven instructional assistants.
In this view, the teacher functions as
an educational diagnostician who — using formative assessment techniques instead of a stethoscope — listens carefully to student thinking; processes it against what he or she knows about the subject at hand, how students learn, and the goals of a lesson.
These professionals include teachers,
educational diagnosticians, school psychologists, speech pathologists, medical professionals, occupational and physical therapists, and counselors.
Charlie Hughes is Professor of Special Education at the Pennsylvania State University and an Adjunct Senior Scientist at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (KU - CRL) Prior to coming to Penn State in 1985, Charlie worked in schools for 14 years as a general and special education teacher, a state - level consultant, and
an educational diagnostician.