Collaborative Teaming
Collaboration and Teaming
• What is collaborative teaming and why is it
important?
• A team cannot function if there is not
effective collaboration.
• Likewise…collaboration cannot occur if
there is not a team to collaborate with.
Collaboration
• Collaboration in latin means, “to labor with;
or together.”
• Collaboration is active and relational.
• It is something that is done with others
• At it’s very core is an understanding and
acceptance by all parties, equality,
engagement, shared decision making, and
common goals are represented.
Teaming
• Teaming is an important part of our
society.
• What are the purposes of teams?
• Team dynamics are multipurpose.
• Teams can function independently as
members to achieve one common goal.
• Basketball and Golf analogy
Collaborative teaming
• If collaboration is what we do and how we
do it, collaborative teaming refers to whom
we do it with.
The need for collaborative teaming
• My book…page 178
Types of Collaborative Teaming
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Multidisciplinary teams
Interdisciplinary Teams
Transdisciplinary teams
Knowing that there are three different
kinds of teams is important to
understanding how the three different
teams function.
Multidisciplinary Teams
• What are MDT?
• How do they function?
• What would goals and objectives look like
for a MDT?
Interdisciplinary Team
• What is an IDT?
• Think Child Study?
• How are goals and objectives created by
an IDT?
Transdisciplinary Teams
• What are TDT?
• What would goals and objectives look like
when created by TDT?
Teaming
• What kind of teaming is used most often
across special education, why?
Why do it?
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Requirements of the Law…IDEA 2004
Legislation requirements
Best practices approach
Alleviate the shortage of qualified teachers
– Determination of eligibility
– Design implementation and evaluation of
individualized education programs
– Design implementation and evaluation of FBA
Teacher Burnout
• What causes teacher burnout, especially
for teachers of students with EBD?
Collaborative Teaming
• School-based teams should use
collaborative teaming for the following
reasons:
– It is legally mandated
– Best practices approach
– Affects student outcomes
– Affects teacher retention
– Improves disproportionate representation
How to create an effect
collaboration team
• Core Component #1:
– Commitment
How to create an effect
collaboration team
• Core Component #2:
– Skills
– Technical skills
– Problem solving skills
– Interpersonal skills
How to create an effect
collaboration team
• Core Component #3:
– Accountability
Framework
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Step 1: Premeeting prep
Step 2: Presentation or discussion
Step 3: Agenda Development
Step 4: Documentation procedures
Step 5; Evaluation procedures
Collaborative Teaming
• Who is involved?
Interpersonal Teaming
• Teacher/para collaboration
• Teacher to teacher collaboration
– Teacher-teacher model in special ed
– Teacher-teacher model in inclusion
– Teacher-teacher model in gen ed
– Teacher-Administrator
Interagency Teaming
• Teacher-Behavior Interventionist
Collaboration
• What does it look like
Family and School Collaboration
• Why do we do it?
• How do we do it?
• When do we do it?
Communication
• How are you going to communicate with
the team in which you are collaborating
with?