Enhancing Partnerships in Special Education

Enhancing Partnerships in Special Education
Author: Tachelle Banks
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1648022960

This book provides readers with a comprehensive description of procedures and practices that can enhance special education collaboration, consultation and cooperation in classroom learning environments and ancillary educational services. Experts in the field of special education provide detailed information on critical topics such as fostering the collaboration between regular education and special education teachers. Detailed discussions also focus on the role of mental health providers in special education, and the innovative use of technology in enhancing partnerships in general and special education. Unique chapters include the psychologist in the special education process, the role of the government as a partner to enhance special education services, and the vital role that principals play as school leaders to insure that special education students garner the necessary services to maximize their learning potential. Lastly, the critical roles that speech and language and physical education specialists play are discussed with regard to optimizing the overall development of students with special needs.

Collaborative Professionalism

Collaborative Professionalism
Author: Andy Hargreaves
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-05-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506328172

Ensure Conversations About Collaboration Get Results. This book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration. Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including: Ten core tenets, including Collective Efficacy, Collaborative Inquiry, and Collaborating With Students. Graphics indicating how educators can move from mere professional collaboration to the deep and transformative work of Collaborative Professionalism. Analysis of which collaborative practices educators should start doing, keep doing, and stop doing Collaboration can be one of your most powerful educational tools when used correctly, and turned into action. This book shows you how.

Consorting And Collaborating In The Education Market Place

Consorting And Collaborating In The Education Market Place
Author: Chris Husbands
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2005-08-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135792356

Chapter 1 The Education Market Place and the Collaborative Response: An Introduction -- part Part 1: Mapping the Development of Collaborative Networks -- chapter 2 Schools, Markets and Collaboration: New Models for Educational Polity? -- chapter 3 Collaboration: A Condition of Survival for Small Rural Schools? -- chapter 4 Collaboration, Competition and Cross-phase Liaison: The North Lowestoft Schools Network -- chapter 5 The Rationale and Experience of a Schools Association: The Ivel Schools Association -- chapter 6 Education 2000: Collaboration and Cooperation as a Model of Change Management -- chapter 7 A Consortium Approach to Staff Development -- chapter 8 Collaboration and Competition in Education: Marriage not Divorce -- chapter 9 Collaboration for School Improvement: The Power of Partnership -- part Part 2: Issues in the Development of Collaborative Networks -- chapter 10 Consortium Collaboration The Experience of TVEI -- chapter 11 Consortium Collaboration in Teacher Education: The ERTEC Experience -- chapter 12 Collaboration through Networking: The Collaborative Action Research Network -- chapter 13 Beyond Collaboration: On the Importance of Community -- chapter 14 Theories of Association: The Social Psychology of Working Together in Educational Consortia.

Effective Collaboration for Educating the Whole Child

Effective Collaboration for Educating the Whole Child
Author: Carol A. Kochhar-Bryant
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2010-04-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412965276

Synopsis: This book examines collaboration between teachers, administrators, student support specialists, community agencies, and service providers to improve outcomes for students with complex learning needs.

Cooperation and Collaboration Initiatives for Libraries and Related Institutions

Cooperation and Collaboration Initiatives for Libraries and Related Institutions
Author: Chisita, Collence Takaingenhamo
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2019-09-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1799800458

At a time when budgets are dwindling, libraries must overcome insularity through collaborative initiatives that allow them to support each other through resource sharing and networking. These collaborative networks can expand beyond libraries to include cooperative efforts with archives and museums in order to surpass challenges in the digital era. Cooperation and Collaboration Initiatives for Libraries and Related Institutions is a critical research publication that explores digital advancements in library collaborative technologies and the steps needed to implement them in order to achieve institutional goals. Featuring topics such as e-records, policymaking, and open educational resources, this book is essential for librarians, archival staff, museum staff, knowledge managers, policymakers, educators, and researchers.

Cooperation in schools. School development through collegial cooperation?

Cooperation in schools. School development through collegial cooperation?
Author: Ron Klug
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2022-05-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3346639487

Seminar paper in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: 1,0, University of Kaiserslautern, language: English, abstract: Excellent work on cooperation and cooperation processes in schools. It is shown how collegial cooperation and team development can contribute to the development of schools. The work was written as part of a qualifying course of study "Master for School Management". The author is actively involved in the school service as a teacher. Following the logic of the proverb, he who works alone also reaches his goal. But this may take longer or the result may not be as satisfactory as it could be through collaboration. Various modalities of work practice are also available in the context of educational work in schools. In addition to the lone worker who plans lessons alone, teaches alone, reflects alone, and solves all problems alone, there are various ways of working together. Schley (2011) refers to the model of the classic lone worker as the "one man model." This must be questioned in the context of school development because individuals cannot develop a school alone. School development can only occur collaboratively. Collegial collaboration in schools has always existed, but often only informally and with little institutionalization. In the literature on school development, teacher cooperation is considered the basis for professional action by teachers in school (cf. Bonsen 2010, p. 289f.). School development research also emphasizes the importance of cooperation for adequate educational provision for students. However, it is not entirely unproblematic to speak of cooperation, because different forms of collegial cooperation can be distinguished from each other, e.g. exchange, division of labor, and coconstruction, which have different functions in everyday school life (cf. Fussangel and Gräsel 2010, p. 258). Cooperation is an integral part of the everyday practice of teachers. Since school development processes are not possible in isolation, this thesis places cooperation in the system context of school development. To this end, the second chapter first provides a basic approach to the concept of cooperation. After a definition of the term, the forms and prerequisites of cooperation are presented. In the third chapter, the contextual conditions are considered. [...]

Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions

Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions
Author: Abdulrahman AI-Youbi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030255255

This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes. The environment in which universities currently exist is considered, and subsequently how an innovative culture might be established and maintained to enable global partnerships to be implemented and to succeed is discussed. The book provides an intense focus on why collaboration is a necessary ingredient for knowledge transfer and explains how to do it. The last part of the book considers how to sustain partnerships. This is because one of the challenges of global partnerships is not just setting them up, but also sustaining them.

The Collaborative School

The Collaborative School
Author: Stuart Carl Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The benefits of a collaborative work setting--including such practices as mutual help, exchange of ideas, joint planning, and participative decision-making--have been consistently confirmed by studies of effective schools and successful businesses. However, teacher isolation remains the norm. Drawing on recent research and educators' firsthand experiences, this book explores the benefits of collaboration, describes various collaborative practices and programs already occurring in schools, and shows how these practices can be introduced using currently available resources. As chapter 1 shows, collaboration has no single model and can occur in formal programs or informally among a few faculty members. Collaboration cannot be imposed from above, but depends on educators' voluntary efforts at self-improvement through teamwork. Collaborative schools foster help-related exchange, harmonize teachers' professional autonomy and principals' managerial authority, and convert teacher accountability to a self-policing policy. The second chapter shows the costs of self-imposed, professionally sanctioned teacher isolation, as contrasted with the benefits of collaboration, including increased professional development opportunities, improved student cooperation, and a more collegial learning environment. The third chapter surveys current collaborative practices in such areas as school improvement, professional development, teacher evaluation, and school decision-making. Chapter 4 shows that developing new practices is itself a collaborative process involving all school professionals. Strategies are suggested for principals desiring to encourage collaboration and for comprehensive and modest undertakings. Policymakers' promotion of instructional leadership might help principals create a truly professional teaching environment. (84 references) (MLH)

Partnerships and Collaboration in Higher Education

Partnerships and Collaboration in Higher Education
Author: Pamela L. Eddy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2010-07-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470902957

The current context in higher education is becoming increasingly complex. Coupled with this organizational complexitiy of operations is a climate of diminishing resources and funding for education in general. Calls for educational reform and limited resources make collaborative responses an attractive option because of the ability to pool talent and resources. Collaborative efforts take many forms. Partnerships may emerge from insitutions working together, departments working across institutions or with community partners, or colleges and universities pairing across national borders. Likewise, collaborations may emerge between and among faculty members that resemble more traditional research projects. From these faculty collaborations, organizational partnerships may then develop. This monograph explroes the key building blocks required to create successful joint ventures. One section reviews partnerships from an institutional perspective, another covers individual collaborations, and a section on future issues identifies threats to partnerships, emergence of international partnerships, and steps to create strategic partnerships. The target audience for this volume includes those interested in developing partnerships or better supporting existing alliances. Administrators with a goal of using partnerships to parlay organizational strengths while saving resources can anticipate problems with the formation of partnerships, undersnd the elemtns that provide support for group work, and learn how to frame the partnership to leverage commitment through a shared vision. Faculty interested in collaboration will find many valuable insights regarding the right questions to ask before committing to a project. And policymakers and grant-funding agencies can use the information to craft mandates and grant language to best support successful partnerships. ultimately, understanding the process of developing partnerships can result in more successful collaborations. This is Vol 36 Issue 2 of the Jossey Bass Ashe Higher Education Report. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.