Collaborative Consult

What is Collaborative Consult?

• 1:1 hand over hand assistance

• including or being included within a group structure

• secures opportunities for students w/ disabilities to learn alongside their peers

• services & supports to obtain success in the general ed setting

Answer explanation

Inclusion secures opportunities for students w/ disabilities to learn alongside their peers. Collaborative consultation refers to services and supports aimed to enable all students to obtain success in the general education classroom.

CC focuses on student independence, confidence and content growth. We should be meeting the student where they are.

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CC ensures students, who receice special education services, feel included in their classrooms, only when it is convenient for them, their sped teachers & their gen ed teachers.

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Answer explanation

Kids come first. One goal of CC is for Students to gain strategies for self-regulation and academic independence. Every student Thriving Everyday!! Not every student thriving when it is convenient.

LRE isn't a place- it's a principle that guides a child's education program.

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Answer explanation

LRE one of several vital components in the development of a student’s IEP and plays a critical role, influencing where a child spends his or her time at school, how services are provided, and the relationships the child develops within the school and community.

A student can NOT be in an applied/resource class and NOT recieve in-class support.

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Answer explanation

All programming should be individualized based on data and areas of need. Remember that all modifications and accommodations should be individualized, allowing  for continued challenge (at their level) and academic growth. A student can be in applied/resource without CC. Also a student can receive CC without being in applied/resource.

Collaborative Consult works best when.....

• you are actively texting with the GE teachers to plan for individual needs

• you are actively meeting with the GE teachers to plan for individual needs

• you are actively emailing with the GE teachers to plan for individual needs

Answer explanation

CC does work best when you are actively meeting, problem solving, and listening to other perspecitves. But time is not always on our side. It is ok to text and email with teachers, but do your best to meet with them as often as possible.

Collaborative Consult can look like...

• Creating and implementing assignments that have been modified and/or accommodated

• Preplanning w/GE during planning, after school, or quickly in the hallway

• Coteaching with GE

• Sending a Parapro to the classroom a few times a week

• All of these answer choices are considered Collaborative Consult.