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EDSE 460 - Collaboration with Parents, Paraprofessionals, and Community Agencies


Description:
Designed to emphasize skills necessary for collaborative relationships in the team process, including collaboration with other teachers, families, paraprofessionals, administration, and community agencies. A practical field experience is included in this course. Course will be offered every year (Winter, Spring).

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student/teacher candidate will be able to:

  • Describe procedures for utilizing community resources.
  • Review research of and apply procedures for communicative and consultative relationships with students, parents, teachers, and other school and community personnel within school and other diverse settings.
  • Identify services and roles of professionals who work within schools and other agencies who contribute to individual student programs for students with disabilities and evaluation of program effectiveness.
  • Describe ways to interact with parents that reflect (a) knowledge of the student characteristics (b) concerns and needs of parents of children with disabilities, and (c) strategies to help parents deal with these concerns in ways that foster respectful and beneficial relationships between families and professionals.
  • Use research-based methods that meet specific criteria to demonstrate and evaluate parent conferencing skills, including (a) planning and conducting collaborative conferences with parents/caregivers, and (b) encouraging and assisting families to become active participants in the educational team.
  • Demonstrate effective strategies (e.g., two way communication skills) for maintaining on-going positive relationships via communication with parents, other educators, other service providers, paraprofessionals, and community members.
  • Utilize research-based strategies for identifying dynamics of team roles, interaction, communication, team building, problem solving, conflict resolution, and stress management.
  • Generate feedback and evaluate performance in collaboration with other adults.
  • Identify ways to strengthen the teacher/paraprofessional team.
  • Describe the importance of clearly defined job responsibilities and supervision expectations for paraprofessionals.
  • Identify ways for a supervising teacher to identify paraprofessional training needs as well as ways for teachers to meet identified needs.
  • Describe how family dynamics play an influential role in the lives of students who are culturally and linguistically diverse in relation to the provision of special education services.
  • Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrate effective collaboration skills.
  • Use copyrighted educational materials in an ethical manner.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/19/2019

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Winter Locations: Ellensburg Spring Locations: Ellensburg



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