Collaboration 101
Paraeducators
Problem Solving
Families
Co-Teaching
100
A direct style for direct interaction between at least two co-equal parties voluntarily engaged in shared decision making as they work toward a common goal.
What is Collaboration
100
Reviewing instruction to ensure understanding, reading tests to students, assist in organizing classroom materials, observing a student's behavior and providing reinforcers.
What are Instructional responsibilities
100
Responding to a crisis or dilemma that requires attention and action in a relatively brief time frame.
What is Reactive problem solving
100
No individual can be understood without recognizing how he or she fits within the entire family
What is the central principle in family systems theory
100
Respond effectively to varied needs of students, lower teacher-student ratio, expands professional expertise
What are advantages of co-teaching
200
A situation in which each person's contribution to an interaction is equally valued?
What is Parity
200
Assisting in recording assessments, entering data on behavior intervention plans, duplicating materials, translating.
What are Noninstructional responsibilities
200
Anticipating a situation which focuses your attention and triggers the problem-solving process before a crisis begins.
What is Proactive problem solving
200
Birth and Early Childhood, Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood.
What are the four family life stages
200
Both educators involved in instruction and students move around the room according to a predetermined schedule.
What is station teaching.
300
School Structure, Professional Socialization, Pragmatic Issues.
What are barriers to collaboration
300
The rising emphasis on early childhood programs, growth in programs to assit students to transition from school to work and ELL students.
What why need for paraeducators are increasing
300
Identifying the problem, generating solutions, evaluating potential solutions, implementing solutions and evaluating outcomes.
What is a model for interpersonal problem solving
300
Focus on the family as the unit, enhance self awareness, respect uniqueness, support in ways requested by the family, provide information in culturally responsive ways
What is providing culturally responsive services
300
Providing a small group of students with instruction that is different from the large group instruction.
What is alternative teaching
400
An alternative procedure for identifying students as having learning disabilities.
What is Response to Intervention
400
Laminated planning agenda, clipboard agenda, email, sticky notes in teacher's manual.
What are ways to communicate with a paraeducator
400
Brainstorming, brainwriting, nominal group technique.
What are ways to generate potential solutions
400
Single parents, nontraditional families, child-care needs, poverty
What are barriers to collaboration with families
400
Both teachers names on the board, both teachers' signatures on documents, desk/storage space for both teachers.
What are parity signals
500
Personal Commitment, Communication Skills, Interaction Processes, Programs or Services, Context.
What are the components for learning about collaboration
500
Modeling effective ways to interact with students, problem solving with general education teachers, ensuring policies and procedures of school are followed, arrange public acknowledgment.
What are Supervisory roles
500
Intrusiveness, feasibility, individual preference
What are strategies to select a solution
500
Provide feedback in a private, safe and comfortable environment, keep number of professionals to a minimum, begin by asking parent about child's strengths, use jargon free language, view child as a "whole" child
What are sensitive strategies to provide information to families
500
Special educator caseload, general education class size, diversity of students needs, small schools
What are logistical issues that affect co-teaching
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