A legal and an ethical responsibility to ensure that a special educator uses a student's information appropriately.
What is Confidentiality?
100
Conversations that people have with themselves while reflecting on events that happened during a particular situation. It allows people to evaluate and improve their actions.
What is Opportunity Thinking?
100
A process in which two or more individuals work together to enable students to develop their skills and abilities.
What is Collaborative Teaming?
100
This specifies the responsibilities of the special educator and paraprofessional, decreases the likelihood of misunderstandings and strengthens collaboration and teamwork.
What is clarification of roles?
100
Talking, listening, and using and interpreting nonverbal messages
What are Communication Skills?
200
All written information being shared to assist a student in an education program is subject to this federal law. Gives a family the right to review a child's information and to challenge any of it. States no public school may release student's information without consent.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
200
A personal record of the teaching process from the educator's perspective.
What is a Reflective Journal?
200
Collaborating with other professionals in planning and implementing learning activities with students.
What is Coteaching?
200
Regular meeting times to help communication and coordinate work between paraprofessionals and special educators.
What is Planning Time?
200
Open, polite, diplomatic, clear, and positive.
What are Effective Parent-Teacher Communications?
300
Team members gain this skill by using empathy, by accepting the skills, competencies, and experiences of other team members, and by believing that other team members are competent.
What is Trust?
300
This involves two or more professionals who co-teach, each complementing the role of the other, based on individual skills, knowledge, and abilities.
What is Complementary Instruction?
300
Level One, Level Two, and Level Three -These are often tied to a paraprofessional's amount of college coursework and salary.
What are the levels of responsibility for a paraprofessional?
300
Seek information, provide information, and clarify or confirm information.
What are the different purposes of asking questions?
400
A process in which two or more individuals share their own experiences, skills, and knowledge.
What is Collaborating?
400
A process used during co-teaching activities that enables one individual to mentor another in developing new professional skills.
What is Role Exchange?
400
To achieve this, a teacher must prepare and plan, review the agenda and time period, describe expected outcomes, effectively listen, review student work examples, summarize, and state next steps.
What is a successful parent-teacher conference?
500
These two Special Educator skills use brainstorming, nominal group technique, and confrontational and non-confrontational solutions.
What are Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution?
500
An interactive process in which individuals with specific areas of expertise come together to generate solutions to mutually defined problems.