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Strategies for Teacher Collaboration Manual $49.00 ISBN 1-931311-04-9 [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Enhance teacher collaboration in your school or district. This training manual assists you in working collaboratively with teachers to solve difficult classroom problems. Intended for anyone who provides support to children with behavioral difficulties--teachers involved in peer coaching, special education teachers, inclusion specialists, social workers, school psychologists, administrators, and consultants--Strategies for Teacher Collaboration offers a complete staff development program in a convenient 3-ring binder format. The manual covers collaboration in consultation, presents a problem solving model, and shows how to address resistance and avoid interpersonal traps. The manual includes overheads (for staff development), note taking guides, activities, and transcripts of actual collaborative encounters. Table of Contents Collaborative Consultation with Teachers 1 Consultation: A Definition 2 Collaboration: A Definition 3 Why is Collaboration so Important in Consultation? 5 What Makes Collaboration Difficult? 5 Purpose of this Guide 6 Organization of this Guide 7 Activity: Consultation in Your School 7 The Problem Solving Model Applied to Teacher Consultation 9 Problem Solving Model: An Overview 9 Stage One: Establish Initial Rapport 12 Activity: Building Rapport 14 Stage One: Negotiate the Contract 16 Activity: Developing the Contract Statement 22 Stage Two: Problem Identification 23 Activity: Identifying Possible Sources of the Problem 27 Activity: Clarifying Meaning 31 Activity: Sharing Data 42 Activity: Problem Identification Stage 47 Stage Three: Intervention 49 Activity: Brainstorming Ideas 54 Activity: Evaluating Intervention Strategies 59 Stage Four: Evaluation and Closure 62 Putting It All Together 66 Activity: Problem Solving Process 67 The Interpersonal Relationship in Teacher Consultation 69 Activity: Best and Worst Consultation 69 The Interpersonal Nature of Consultation 72 Resistance to Innovation and Change 74 Activity: Resistance to an Innovation 75 Resistance to Collaboration 76 Activity: Identifying Resistance 79 Handling Resistance Positively 80 Putting It All Together 85 Activity: Handling Resistance 89 What Goes Wrong in Teacher Collaboration 93 What Happens When Consultants Personalize Resistance? 94 The Helping Relationship 96 Consultant Needs 97 Activity: Identifying Your Own Needs 99 Personalizing Resistance 101 Activity: Positive and Negative Manifestations of needs 101 The Four Consultant Traps 103 Advice 103 Judgment 111 Overresponsibility 123 No Relationship 128 Activity: Trap Trigger Messages 130 Activity: Transcript for Identifying Traps 133 References 139 Appendix 141  Read an excerpt of this publication in PDF.
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