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For courses in collaboration and consultation.

This text effectively describes an interactive teaming model that focuses on consultation and collaboration to improve the services offered to students with special needs. The model incorporates essential elements of total quality efforts, adult learning theories, and recognizing the importance of sensitivity to cultural differences. The authors clearly explain the underlying theories and legal requirements of such service delivery systems and offer practical examples to bridge theory and practice. Readers are introduced to an overview of past and present programs, the facilitating factors necessary to make a teaming model work, and the implementation of interactive teaming in four contexts-culturally/linguistically diverse students, infants/preschoolers, students with mild disabilities, and students with severe disabilities.

• NEW - New IDEA regulations, inclusion, and the changing role of special educators emphasized.

• NEW - School-based examples—Included in each chapter.

  • Demonstrates how the teaming process can be implemented in current context. Ex.___

• NEW - How the interactive teaming process can be implemented in schools, agencies, and hospitals is described.

• NEW - Updated sources—Text is infused with examples of the teaming process.

• NEW - Topic of cultural diversity—Woven throughout the text.

  • Helps the reader understand this important trend. Ex.___

• NEW - Website addresses—Offered to enhance the topics presented in the text.

• Current information—On the latest movements in school reform and restructuring.

• Pertinent statistical information—On changing demographics in school age populations and the latest figures on the nature and number of children identified as “at risk.”

• Realistic suggestions—Offered for managing conflict among team members.

• New IDEA regulations, inclusion, and the changing role of special educators emphasized.

• School-based examples—Included in each chapter.

  • Demonstrates how the teaming process can be implemented in current context. Ex.___

• How the interactive teaming process can be implemented in schools, agencies, and hospitals is described.

• Updated sources—Text is infused with examples of the teaming process.

• Topic of cultural diversity—Woven throughout the text.

  • Helps the reader understand this important trend. Ex.___

• Website addresses—Offered to enhance the topics presented in the text.

PART I. CONTEXT AND FOUNDATIONS.

PART II. FACILITATING FACTORS.

PART III. IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERACTIVE TEAMING.

Collaboration / Consultation  (Special Education)

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  Interactive Teaming: Enhancing Programs for Students with Special Needs, 4/E
  Correa, Jones, Thomas & Morsink
  ©2005 | Merrill | Paper; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131125923 | ISBN-13: 9780131125926
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  For courses in Collaboration/Consultation/Co-Teaching and School Counseling.

  As the population of special learners changes and the demands on educational professionals increase, the need for collaboration/co-teaching and consultation becomes ever more acute. To address this need, this popular text presents a teaming model–one based on interdisciplinary teaching and collaborative consultation.   By sharing knowledge among professionals; and teaming with professionals and parents to meet the unique requirements of children and youth with special needs, this approach works with infants/toddlers through secondary-school aged learners. Comprising this teaming model are key elements of school leadership, adult learning, and the recognition importance of maintaining sensitivity to cultural and language differences.

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
Allyn & Bacon
©2001 | Merrill | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319602 | ISBN-13: 9780205319602
URL:  http://www.ablongman.com/dma

CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Longman
©2007 | Merrill | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205531709 | ISBN-13: 9780205531707

Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Southern Poverty Law Center
©2001 | Merrill | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130284580 | ISBN-13: 9780130284587

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