COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AND INCLUSION

Catalog description

This course is designed to promote student's knowledge, skills and dispositions regarding positive collaborative partnerships between general education and special education teachers, parents and families, child study team members, administrators and para professionals. Topics include methods of co-teaching, in-class support, participation on multi-disciplinary child study teams and response-to-intervention (RTI) teams, stages of group development, personal planning and strategies for establishing a learning community. Students will observe, rehearse and present results from evaluations in practice sessions.