Communicate
Co-teaching
Working with Paras
Families and Communities
Meeting Essentials
100
Broad categories of communication that include body language, vocal cues, and spatial relations
What is nonverbal communication.
100
You are a high school American History teacher working with students with special needs in your classroom. You find out that the special ed. support teacher was a double major in college: special ed. and history. The two of you decide to lessen the student/teacher ratio and choose this type of co-teaching model where you split the class and deliver exactly the same content to exactly half the class.
What is Parallel Teaching?
100
According to IDEA, holding a high school diploma and being "appropriately trained" are all that's needed. In the state of Minnesota, they must also show that they are highly qualified.
What are paraeducator qualifications?
100
A theory in which the family is seen as a complex and interactive social system in which all members needs and experiences affect each other.
What is the Family Systems Theory?
100
The role of these stakeholders is to relate that children are vulnerable and matter, to help the team understand family values and long-range goals, to learn how to support the educational program of their children.
Who are the parents?
200
Any situation in which a person doesn't say way he or she means, a listener misunderstands the message, or a listener doesn't trust the message.
What happens when communication problems or a communication breakdown occurs?
200
You and your general education partner teacher are working together in a classroom with 32 students. The students with special needs are really doing quite well in the mainstream. You and your partner decide to implement this co-teaching model where you can work with small groups of students to help them understand the content better.
What is Alternative Teaching?
200
This is one of the biggest challenges of the professional/paraeducator relationship.
What is lack of planning time to discuss the needs of students?
200
DAILY DOUBLE! Shock, denial, sadness, anxiety, fear, anger, acceptance.
What are the stages of parental reactions to having a child with a disability?
200
A place to put items that are not relevant to the purpose of the meeting. The items are acknowledged as being important and will be dealt with at another time.
What is a parking lot?
300
The type of language used when a communicator puts out a message. Usually occurs through oral language, but can occur through sign, written, or body langaguage.
What is Expressive Language?
300
Two students with physical disabilities are enrolled in an art class. You are the special ed support teacher and admit that you are terrible at art and will be able to assist with the physical demands for performing the art activities and provide you and the student with assistive technology devices. You and the art teacher decide to implement this co-teaching model.
What is One Teach/One Assist?
300
Ensuring that paras know their assigned roles, communicate about student needs, supervise paras, and address matters of conflict is their responsibility.
Who is the special education teacher?
300
Unemployment, underemployment, dropping out of school and engaging in at-risk behaviors.
What may be the outcomes for adults who have disabilities?
300
The person who facilitates meetings in the vast majority of circumstances. Only in the case of contentious meetings or student-led meetings would someone else act as facilitator.
What is the special education case manager.
400
The type of language skill used to understand the meaning of the sender.
What is Receptive Language?
400
Your general ed partner is a very concrete/sequential teacher. He is comfortable giving lectures and paper/pencil tasks and is very good at it. You are the special ed support teacher are are very artsy and creative. The two of you decide to utilize both talents to work with small groups of heterogeneous students, so you decide to implement this type of co-teaching model so all students can complete different types of learning activities.
What is Station Teaching?
400
DAILY DOUBLE! Instructional delivery (but not planning), communicating between classroom teacher and special ed case manager, providing direct support for students and completing clerical duties.
What are the roles and/or responsibilities of paraeducators?
400
Secondary students have a certain level of basic skills where they can read and comprehend text, can compute mathematical computations, and express themselves in writing in order to become independent learners.
What are secondary teacher expectations of their students?
400
A form that a special education case manager may use to get feedback from various participants in order to help prepare for the meeting.
What is a question sheet?
500
Hearing, attending, understanding, responding and remembering are all a part of this very important communication process.
What is the Listening Process?
500
Your and your gen ed English teacher are working together in a Language Arts class. Not all of the students are on IEPs, but they all struggle with passing the MCA reading test. The English teacher has a license in content knowledge, but you have certifications in teaching strategies related specifically to comprehension and decoding. The two of you decide on this co-teaching model where you split the teaching responsibilities so you can teach specific strategies to the entire class, then the English teacher can teach content to the entire class.
What is Team Teaching?
500
Increases in early childhood programs and services, assistance for transition from school to community settings, the number of second language learners, shortages of special education teachers and in trends toward inclusive practices have been cause for this hiring practice.
What is an increase of paraeducators in schools.
500
Making learning relevant, improving instruction, increasing supports, ensuring positive adult relationships, improving communication between schools and parents, and focusing on the future through an awareness of community supports.
What are ways in which schools and teachers can help to prevent students from dropping out of school?
500
Present levels of performance including strengths, observations/evaluations, progress, and needs; Goals and Objectives; Services and Placement; and Other areas including EST, transportation, transition planning, etc.
What is the order in which items in an IEP meeting need to be addressed?
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