Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (6th Edition) [Paperback]

Marilyn Friend (Author), Lynne Cook (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0137152051 | ISBN-13: 978-0137152056 | Publication Date: April 6, 2009 | Edition: 6

The most widely-used text on the topic of collaboration, Interactions is a guide for preprofessionals and professionals to help them understand and participate effectively in their interactions with other school professionals and parents.  It addresses collaboration as a style, with accompanying knowledge and skills, that guides practices in many education efforts.

 

Interactions provides a cutting-edge look at how teams of school professionals– special educators, general educators and related services professionals–can effectively work together to provide a necessary range of services to students with special needs. As a result, future teachers learn how to collaborate with school professionals and families to help special education students who are more often being placed in general education settings.

 

New to this Edition!

• Chapter on collaborating with Families--Back by popular demand is a full chapter on family collaboration (chapter 8) which details the role teachers can and should play with families of students with disabilities.
• Case Study Activity -- Each chapter now concludes with a reflective case study that will allow students to apply concepts learned in the chapter.

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Highlights of the Sixth Edition

NEW Families Chapter (Chapter 8) explores professional interactions with parents, the historical and current roles of families, and overview of family systems theory.  Strategies for effectively interacting with families from diverse cultural groups are stressed.

NEW!  Technology Tools.  Recognizing the rapidly growing use of technology in the practice of collaboration, each chapter addresses specific technology applications for collabration, including new tools such as wikis and RSS feeds.

NEW!  A Case for Collaboration.  Each chapter concludes with realistic cases demonstrating ways in which concepts and practices are applied in actual situations. 

NEW!  Collaborative Activities.  Application items designed for group interaction  are found at the end of each chapter.

Cases and Vignettes. Case descriptions and vignettes are presented at the opening and throughout each chapter to illustrate relevant concepts and principles.

Putting Ideas into Practice.   Features elaborate on concepts, skills, and practices as they’re applied in real school settings.

A Basis in Research.   Pertinent research studies, recognizing the developing research base in the area of collaboration and the importance research-based practices.

Product Details

• Paperback: 402 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 edition (April 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137152051
• ISBN-13: 978-0137152056
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding practical guide for teachers to work together, June 10, 1999

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This review is from: Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (Paperback)

For any teachers who want to improve their effectiveness in teams and decrease frustrations when teams don't work, this is a useful resource. The chapters touch on the real issues that affect schools and keep the adults in schools from working effectively together. In other words, all the unmentioned political and interpersonal foolishness that nobody teaches you about in teacher school are laid right out there, along with suggestions on how to deal effectively with problem situations. A real must-read for teachers who value collaboration.

If you want to be a better colleague and develop the skills to deal effectively with other school professionals, this book can help you. If you are a special education teacher frustrated by resistance from general ed teachers, this book can help you. If you want to stop wasting time at team meetings, this book can help you.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very repitious, January 3, 2007

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Artistic differences "lil dancer" (Lido Beach, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (5th Edition) (Paperback)

Much of the same information repeated throughout the chapters. Also would like to see chapters shifted around. didn't think the order was appropriate or logical.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring, hard to read, September 23, 2009

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This review is from: Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (6th Edition) (Paperback)

This textbook is difficult to read and bores me. They could have said the same things in simpler terms and much quicker. It seems to be very repetitive, but I have already taken a class like this one with a much better text.