Skills Classroom Consultation CL

✍ Scribed by Anne Jordan

• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As the integration of children with special educational needs into ordinary classrooms progresses, most special needs professionals spend an increasing amount of time in mainstream schools, working with teachers in the classroom on interventions for individual children and with head teachers and senior management teams on whole school policy. Skills in Classroom Consultation is a practical guide to the tools and techniques required to work effectively with colleagues in defining goals, allocating responsibility and formulating strategies. It shows how consultative skills can be used to solve particular educational problems and also how the consultant professional can act in a more far-reaching way as an agent of change within an institution.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Illustrations......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Collaborative consultation in context......Page 12
Elements of alternative school delivery models......Page 27
Consulting skills: contracting......Page 42
Consulting skills: assessment, feedback and developing a plan of action......Page 57
Difficult consulting situations......Page 73
Working with parents, administrators and service professionals......Page 83
Drawing on the resources of the school......Page 93
Overview of classroom consultation: getting ready to begin......Page 105
The contracting meeting and identifying needs and offers......Page 119
Responding to resistance......Page 123
Exercises and case studies......Page 126
References......Page 131
Name index......Page 137
Subject index......Page 139