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Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals, 4/E
Marilyn Friend, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Lynne Cook, California State University, Dominguez Hills

ISBN-10: 0205359035
ISBN-13: 9780205359035

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 368 pp
Published: 08/02/2002

This text addresses collaboration as a style, with accompanying knowledge and skills, that guides practices in many education efforts.

Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals, Fourth Edition, provides a cutting-edge look at how teams of school professionals—classroom teachers, special education teachers, and counselors—can effectively work together to provide a necessary range of services to students with special needs. As a result, future teachers learn how to collaborate with school professionals and families to help special education students who are more often being placed in general classroom settings.

“Putting Ideas into Practice” sections in each chapter give specific and practical ideas about how to use the material presented to collaborate more successfully.

Four chapters cover specific service-delivery models—consultation (Ch.4), teams and teamwork (Ch. 6), co-teaching (Ch. 8), and staff development (Ch. 13).

Strong emphasis on collaboration with families, paraprofessionals, administrators, and professionals from outside agencies.

New chapter on working with parents with related activities & readings (Ch. 10).

New chapter on working with paraprofessionals (Ch. 9).

New chapter on collaboration with others, with topics including interagency collaboration, early childhood collaboration, and student-student collaboration (Ch. 12).

Expanded chapter on “Perspectives and Issues” (Ch. 12) includes timely discussion on such topics as: role-specific considerations in working with other professionals; student-to-student collaboration; interagency collaboration; collaboration in prevocational and vocational programs; early childhood collaboration; and ethical issues.

Discussion of collaboration in context of IDEA (Ch. 1).

For the first time, text has an Instructor's Manual with additional activities, cases, overhead transparencies, and a test bank.

All chapters begin with “Connections,” “Learner Objectives,” and “Introduction” and end with “Summary,” “Activities and Assignments,” and “For Further Reading.”

Preface.

Forward.

Chapter One: The Fundamentals of Collaboration.

Collaboration Concepts.

Collaboration in a Contemporary Context.

Framework for Learning About Collaboration.

Chapter Two: Interpersonal Communication.

Models of Communication.

Prerequisites to Effective Interactions.

Communication Skills.

Developing Effective Communication Skills.

Chapter Three: Using Statements.

Purposes of Statements.

Giving Verbal Feedback.

Chapter Four: Asking Questions.

Purposes of Questions.

Characteristics of Questions.

Suggestions for Effectively Asking Questions.

Conducting Interviews.

Chapter Five: Interpersonal Problem Solving.

A Context for Interpersonal Problem Solving.

Steps in Interpersonal Problem Solving.

Chapter Six: Teams.

Team Concepts.

Team Models.

Conducting Meetings.

Collaboration and Teams.

Chapter Seven: Consultation.

Consultation Concepts.

Consultation Models.

Consultation and Collaboration.

Chapter Eight: Co-Teaching.

Co-Teaching Concepts.

Co-Teaching Approaches.

Co-Teaching and Collaboration.

Administrative and Logistic Support for Co-Teaching.

Chapter Nine: Paraeducators.

Paraeducators in Public Schools.

Paraeducator Roles and Responsibilities.

Working with Paraeducators.

Paraeducators and Collaboration.

Chapter Ten: Families.

Understanding Families.

Facilitating Family Participation in Decision Making.

Chapter Eleven: Difficult Interactions.

Understanding Conflict.

Understanding Resistance.

Chapter Twelve: Perspectives and Issues.

Role-Specific Considerations in Collaboration.

Context Considerations for Collaboration.

Multicultural Considerations.

Student-to-Student Collaboration.

Ethics in Collaborative Practice.

Chapter Thirteen: Practical Matters.

Time for Planning.

Scheduling and Coordinating Services.

Program Development Tasks.

Staff Development.

References.

Index.

Collaboration / Consultation (Special Education)

Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals, 6/E
Friend & Cook
©2010 | Merrill | Paper; 416 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0137152051 | ISBN-13: 9780137152056
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The most widely-used text on the topic of collaboration, Interactions is a guide for preprofessionals and professionals to help them understand and participate effectively in their interactions with other school professionals and parents. It addresses collaboration as a style, with accompanying knowledge and skills, that guides practices in many education efforts.

Interactions provides a cutting-edge look at how teams of school professionals— special educators, general educators and related services professionals—can effectively work together to provide a necessary range of services to students with special needs. As a result, future teachers learn how to collaborate with school professionals and families to help special education students who are more often being placed in general education settings.

Instructor Resources
Course & Discipline Resources

Instructor's Manual and Test Bank (Download Only), 4/E
Friend & Cook
©2003 | Merrill | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205371515 | ISBN-13: 9780205371518
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Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
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