Collaboration Skills In Special Education SPED 568

1. Collaboration SkillsIn Special EducationSPED 568

2. Components of Collaboration Personal Commitment Communication Skills Interaction Processes Programs or Services Context

3. Components of Collaboration Programs or Services Personal Commitment Communication Skills Interaction Processes Programs or Services Context

4. Components of Collaboration Interaction Processes Personal Commitment Communication Skills Interaction Processes Programs or Services Context

5. Teams

6. Rationale

7. An educational team…

8. An educational team…

9. Disciplinary Relationships on Teams • Multidisciplinary teams • Makes decisions about eligibility and programs • Interdisciplinary teams • Coordination of information and services • Transdisciplinary teams • Most collaborative of the team model based on a process known as role release

10. Collaboration and Teams • Collaboration can be applied to all types of teams. • Defining characteristics of a team are very similar to those of collaboration. • An effective team is a collaborative work group.

11. Characteristics of Educational Teams

12. Developmental Stages of a Team

13. Problems in Group Dynamics

14. Group Think • Groups do not carefully evaluate alternative ideas or possible courses of action • Driven by excessive concurrence-seeking • team members agree with one another without question or dissent to maintain unity/harmony

15. Social Loafing • The tendency for people working together on a task to expend less energy than if they were working on it alone • Especially likely when the team’s goals are not clearly defined

16. Acquiescence to Dominance • The tendency of cooperative, introverted or passive persons to give in to the forcefulness of others • Blocks the contributions of less dominant team members • Allows decisions and directions to be controlled by a minority of team members

17. Unresolved Conflict • Personalized disagreements in which the persons involved develop an adversarial stance • Blocks the team’s ability to collaborate • Decreases team morale • May split and polarize the team • Dominates the dynamic until resolved

18. Disjointed Diversity • Failure to develop bonds across lines of diversity • Can become the most powerful inhibiting force on a team • Sources: professional, religious, ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and political

19. The Meeting

20. Conducting Effective Team Meetings • Prior to the meeting • Decide whether a meeting is needed • Decide the purpose • Articulate desired outcomes • Delineate a realistic agenda and time frame • Arrange the setting

21. Conducting Effective Team Meetings • During the meeting • Review agenda and timelines • Participate effectively • Formal roles • Informal roles

22. Formal Roles of Team Members • Leader • Makes sure team accomplishes its work • Facilitator • Ensures that members follow ground rules (norms) • Recorder • Writes down work of the team • Time Keeper • Reminds team members of time matters

23. Conducting Effective Team Meetings • After the meeting • Follow through with individual team member responsibilities and tasks

24. Team Effectiveness Characteristics • Teams Goals are Clear • Member's Needs are Met • Member's Have Individual Accountability • Team Members Have Leadership Skills • Group Processes Maintain the Team