The Instructional Support Team (IST) Collaboration. Trainer's Manual [electronic resource] / Joseph F. Kovaleski, Ed.
This trainer's manual focuses on facilitating collaboration in an educational setting. It begins with tips for trainers to involve training session participants, answer questions and respond to challenges, and evaluate their own performance, along with sample agendas and worksheets used in coll...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1994.
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| Summary: | This trainer's manual focuses on facilitating collaboration in an educational setting. It begins with tips for trainers to involve training session participants, answer questions and respond to challenges, and evaluate their own performance, along with sample agendas and worksheets used in collaboration training. Each of the next six sections contains overhead masters, descriptions of activities, forms and worksheets, and other support materials. Section 2 provides an overview of collaboration, detailing benefits for administrators, teachers, students, and parents. Section 3 examines district/building planning for the Instructional Support Team (IST) program, including the roles of key personnel, identification of school resources, and ramifications. Section 4 describes the IST four- step problem-solving process, illustrated by several case studies. Section 5 looks at interactive communicative skills. Section 6 explores team practice, focusing on selection of team members, meetings, IST roles and functions, and record keeping. The final section covers team maintenance and the activities designed to promote cooperative, respectful, and effective working relationships among team members. (Contains 20 references.) (ND) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED461616. Sponsoring Agency: Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. ERIC Note: For related IST documents, see SP 037 535-545. |
| Physical Description: | 205 pages. |
| Audience: | Practitioners. Teachers. |