Collab Basics
This is the primary goal of collaboration in special education.
What is improving outcomes for students with disabilities?
This type of communication involves active listening, paraphrasing, and clarifying to ensure mutual understanding.
What is effective or active communication?
This team member ensures that instruction and accommodations align with a student's IEP goals.
Who is the special education teacher?
This is one effective strategy for building trust with families during IEP meetings.
What is using clear language, showing empathy, and inviting input from families?
This is co-teaching model involves both teachers delivering the same instruction together to use the whole class.
This is the first step in establishing effective collaboration among educators and service providers.
What is setting shared goals and expectations?
This communication skill involves restating what someone has said to confirm understanding.
What is paraphrasing?
This team member provides expertise in adapting curriculum and instruction for students with disabilities.
Who is the special education teacher?
Inviting families to share their child's strengths and interests during meetings supports this key principle of collaboration.
What is family-centered practice?
In this co-teaching model, one teacher leads instruction while the other circulates to assist students.
What is one teach, one assist?
Regularly scheduled meetings between teachers and specialists are in an example of this type of collaboration.
What is structured or planned collab time?
When discussing sensitive topics with families or colleagues, this type of language helps maintain trust and respect.
What is person-first or professional language?
This person coordinates related services and ensures that all team members are informed about student progress.
Who is the IEP coordinator and case manager?
When educators and families jointly set goals and monitor progress, they are engaging in this collaborative process.
What is shared decision-making?
This co-teaching model divides the class into two groups, each taught by a teacher covering the same material.
What is parallel teaching?
In this co-teaching approach, one teacher provides instruction to a small group while the other continues teaching the rest of the class.
This co-teaching model involves teachers dividing instructional content and teaching different material to different groups before switching.
What is station teaching?