Collaboration, Consultation, and Teamwork for Students with Special Needs

by Peggy Dettmer, Ann Knackendoffel, Linda P. Thurston

The seventh edition of Collaboration, Consultation, and Teamwork for Students with Special Needs, focuses on collaboration in a variety of environments and emphasizes constructive ways to use educator differences to serve students with special needs. This text’s broad perspective ensures coverage of the history of collaboration, ways to structure and implement collaborative teams, important processes and practices that ensure effective co-educator partnerships, and the external support that makes collaborative school consultation successful. The seventh edition features new chapters devoted to professional perspectives, personal preferences, paraeducators and evaluation techniques. With expanded Technology Tools sections, coverage of the latest educational reforms, and updated activities, this edition prepares educators, school personnel, families, and community leaders with a strong knowledge base that celebrates the strengths in personal differences.

Genres: Grad School

480 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2008

Reviews

[Pamela · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a bit redundant and it was quite a bit off track for my course of study. While consultation and collaboration IS important in the field of applied behavior analysis, this text only speaks in the context of the school system and special education teachers. Not Behaviorists.

[Chelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical tools for special educators to use in collaborative partnerships with their colleagues. So wish I had these tools four years ago!

[Malika Norman]

This was a great book . It gives the reader or student the perspective on why it is so important for example teachers and co teachers to get along. It also gives graphs and study charts on how many students and co teachers felt a certain way about a certain element of the classroom they would like to change.

[Todd Gingrich · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a pretty solid textbook until Chapter 8: The Bullshit Woke Chapter. The chapter was replete with social justice and CRT propaganda and it undermined the credibility of everything else in the book. Sigh….

[Nicole King · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative

[Ness · Rating 1 out of 5]

Had to read these for a collaboration class I took. Very little new information, was very dry and boring, and repeated the same ideas and information numerous times. Boring!!

[Jenifer Popolizio · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 A good textbook with lots of resources inside; not as technical as some textbooks are, which I considered a plus!

[Jennifer Bauer · Rating 1 out of 5]

It was redundant. It gave me no new information. It was kind of, sort of, absolutely ridiculous. Somehow I survived reading this. No thank you.

[Blaise Nicoletti · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible. A sad confirmation of where we are in our society with regards to such a great lack of maturity among (adolescent) adults. Learned nothing.

[E.A.G. E.A.G. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good read on how co-teaching and collaboration are good sources for beginners and season teachers. this is especially helpful for strategies for teachers working together in different ways for the better of Special needs students, hence the title. I would recommend for beginning and learning educators as well as season teachers who wish to brush up on information and techniques.