Guide Name and Description/Objectives

Related Lesson/Module Section

Learning Guide 4.1: Setting the Stage- Pre-Module

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges practitioners have when working with other practitioners and families to ensure programs and services achieve desired child and family outcomes and goals.

Learning Guide 4.2: Ask The Expert

With this guide, learners will:

• Describe teaming and collaboration practices.
• Identify key characteristics of recommended practices related to teaming and collaboration.

Learning Guide 4.3a: Gathering Information

With this guide, learners will:

• have the chance to demonstrate and reflect on teaming and collaboration, and
• as a team, synthesize and integrate their knowledge using effective teaming and collaboration practices to facilitate better service delivery for the child with a disability and their family.

Learning Guide 4.3b: Gathering Information

With this guide, learners will:

• reflect on times they have worked as a team and identify the strategies that supported the collaboration and those that did not support the collaboration.

Learning Guide 4.4: Take Action

With this guide, learners will:

• Practice using quality communication skills to convey vital information for providing services and supports for children and families.

Learning Guide 4.5: Voices from the Field

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify strategies and considerations that will help inform their practice for working with children and families from special populations.

Learning Guide 4.6: Scenario-Based Activity

This guide contains a set of five simulations/scenarios that can be used in place of, or in addition to, the online simulation.

With this guide, learners will:

• Practice engaging in professional discussions that promote and sustain collaborative adult partnerships, relationships, and ongoing interactions to ensure programs and services achieve desired child and family outcomes and goals.
• Apply what they have learned about teaming and collaboration practices.

Learning Guide 4.7: Reframing Activity Guide

With this guide, learners will:

• Reframe statements about families to reflect an anti-bias viewpoint.
• Reflect on implicit bias and its impact on their practice.

Module 4 Do Section

Module 4 Study Section

Learning Guide 4.8: Performance Feedback Guide

This guide can be used in class when learners are engaged in role-plays or scenario-based activities. Also, this guide can be used when supervising learners in early childhood settings with children.

Learning Guide 4.9: Practice Profile

Module 4: Teaming and Collaboration Practice Profile connects DEC Recommended Practices for teaming and collaboration with how this practice contributes to child and family outcomes and describes example behavior of practitioners that are associated with each practice.

Learning Guide 4.10: Setting the Stage- Wrap-Up

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges practitioners have when working with other practitioners and families to ensure programs and services achieve desired child and family outcomes and goals.
• Identify best practices for engaging in teaming and collaboration efforts among practitioners and families.