A guide to collaboration for IEP teams / by Nicholas R.M. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Nicholas R. M., 1951-

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Individualized education programs--United States.

Individualized education programs.

Children with disabilities--Education--United States--Planning.

Children with disabilities.

Children with disabilities--Education.

Planning.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : P.H. Brookes Pub. Co., [2005]

Summary:

With so many complex, challenging, and emotionally charged decisions involved, participating in an IEP meeting can seem like navigating through a minefield. But now there's a practical guide to managing these meetings with a high level of awareness, safety, and confidence. Developed for administrators, teachers, resource professionals, and parents, this skills-based book will help you work as a unified team to design, review, and modify IEPs for children with special education needs. This resource fully addresses Effective meeting management. Discover how to promote and maintain the collaboration that leads to consensus. Highlight the characteristics of model IEP teams and meetings. Have a comprehensive guide to conducting successful meetings, from setting ground rules and managing time to planning agendas and accomplishing goals. Principled negotiation. Apply a proven approach to building consensus while minimizing conflict. Learn how to use team members' underlying interests to move from competition into cooperation, while maintaining a strong and positive team spirit. The emotional side. Examine the central role of feelings as motivators of behavior. Learn how to turn strong emotions into powerful allies, and discover the simple keys that help team members communicate with respect and understanding, work through anger, and maintain diplomacy. Conflict prevention. Discover 25 clear, specific, and practical alternatives for resolving conflict before it escalates into debilitating tensions or legal action. Written in a user-friendly and conversational style, this much-needed book is supplemented with checklists, outlines, diagrams, and specific examples to make the complex simple. Incorporating the feedback and suggestions of hundreds of special education professionals, this book will be of invaluable help to you and your fellow team members as you work together to create the best possible IEPs for the children in your care.

Contents:

A vision of the IEP team

Conducting the IEP meeting

Achieving collaboration and consensus

Timelines and behavior trains

Diplomacy and support of feelings

The search for serenity

The courage to make changes

The wisdom to know

Where we go from here

Appendix. The graduate course.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

155766790X

OCLC:

55846399