“Quality of Education and Equity for All Students” describes the Multinational School Dhahran’s vision . To meet this challenge, the Learning Support staff is committed to ensuring high-quality services for all students through our continuous efforts in the following areas:

• Protecting the rights of individuals with learning difficulties
• Educating students with learning difficulties with their “typical developing” peers in the general education classroom
• Treating all students equally, regardless of their abilities
• Supporting students in the major academic areas (e.g. English and Math)
• Building our teaching strategies on evidence-based-research and best practices
• Implementing instructional strategies that are founded on Applied Behaviour Analysis (e.g. chaining, shaping, task analysis, etc.)
• Designing and implementing the Individual Education Plan and enrichment programs
• Utilising assessments to monitor student progress on a daily basis, measure program effectiveness, and guide instructional practices
• Simplifying/modifying the curriculum into more accessible formats in order to meet the student’s individual needs

• Differentiating instruction that addresses the diverse learning needs of the students.
• Empowering students and supporting them to reach their full potential academically, socially, and behaviourally
• Promoting the students’ independence and productivity
• Improving the students self-efficacy, well-being and self-esteem
• Teaching students stress/anger management strategies
• Utilising the technology, library and media/environmental resources to support teaching and learning
• Promoting meaningful parent involvement to strengthening home-school partnership