Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals (4th Edition) [Paperback]

Marilyn Friend (Author), Lynne Cook (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0205359035 | ISBN-13: 978-0205359035 | Publication Date: August 2, 2002 | Edition: 4

Interactions, Fourth Edition, provides a cutting-edge look at how teams of school professionals-classroom teachers, special education teachers, and counselors-can effectively work together to provide a necessary range of services to students with special needs. This book addresses collaboration as a style, with accompanying knowledge and skills, which guides practices in many education efforts. 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 classroom settings. For all educators and people interested in education.

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Interactions, Fourth Edition, provides a cutting-edge look at how teams of school professionals-classroom teachers, special education teachers, and counselors-can effectively work together to provide a necessary range of services to students with special needs. This book addresses collaboration as a style, with accompanying knowledge and skills, which guides practices in many education efforts. 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 classroom settings. For all educators and people interested in education.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 4 edition (August 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205359035
• ISBN-13: 978-0205359035
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,093,258 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.