Collaboration of General and Special Education Teachers

What is the definition of collaboration?

• Just working together

• Professional partnership between 2 or more coequal educators

• Getting to know each other

• A school-mandated time that you need to meet with another teacher

Preparing general and special education teachers for collaboration should begin...

• Within the context of teacher preparation programs

• The first day of the school year

• During common planning time

• It happens naturally, therefore no preparation needed

One of the top barriers in collaboration is:

• Liking your co-teacher

• Content knowledge

• Finding time to collaborate

• Agreeing with your admin

Planning time should be used for:

• Rapport building

• Goal directed planning with a specific agenda

• Unstructured conversations

• Complain about admin

One planning process is the What, How, Who approach. "What" refers to:

• Which co-teaching approach could be used

• Content that needs to be taught

• Which students need additional behavioral or academic supports

Preservice teachers may feel unprepared to teach content-specific topics. Both special and general education teachers can create information sheets to help each other.

• True

• False

An integral part of collaboration is:

• Agreeing on everything

• Communication between general and special education teachers

• Staying silent if you do know a certain topic

SHARE stands for:

• Starting Here and Reassessing Everything

• Showcasing Hopes, Alliances, Responsibilities and Expectations

• Sharing How Attitudes Really Evolve

• Sharing Hopes, Attitudes, Responsibilities, and Expectations

Steps to support enhanced listening include all of the following except:

• Tuning into the speaker and not allowing distractions

• Mentally reviewing and categorizing information provided by the speaker into themes

• Having your computer open when the person is speaking

• Writing down information when the speaker shares a lot of information

After issues are identified, the first step of a conflict resolution plan is:

• Multiple alternative course of action for consideration

• Pros and cons of each course of action

• Selected course of action

• Evaluation of selected course of action