Collaborating For Student Success: A Guide For School-Based Occupational Therapy
Editors: Barbara Hanft, MA, OTR, FAOTA, and Jayne Shepherd, MS, OTR, FAOTA
Authors: Barbara Hanft, MA, OTR, FAOTA; Jayne Shepherd, MS, OTR, FAOTA; Gloria Frolek Clark, MS, OTR/L, BCP, FAOTA; and Yvonne Swinth, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Order No: #3023
Earn 2 AOTA CEUs (20 NBCOT PDUs/20 contact hours)
Content Level: Advanced
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Course Description
Collaboration is generally referred to by school-based practitioners as team meetings, informal discussions, working in the classroom, helping teachers and aides, and general getting along with one’s team mates. Collaboration is rarely described as an interactive team process focused on student performance and influenced by critical personal and contextual variables. The key to effective collaboration in education settings is learning to use one’s professional knowledge and interpersonal skills to blend hands-on services for students with the team and system supports for families, educators, and the school system at large.
Collaborating for Student Success: A Guide for School-Based Occupational Therapy is an AOTA Self-Paced Clinical Course designed to engage school-based occupational therapists in collaborative practice with education teams. The ultimate goal of team collaboration for occupational therapists is to ensure that students engage in educationally relevant occupations as part of their typical school routines, or “paces,” within a variety of school “places and spaces,” such as the classroom, cafeteria, gymnasium, and community work sites. This course is a practical guide that highlights how occupational therapists collaborate effectively with family and education partners in the schools and connect collaboration to the mandate in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) and No Child Left Behind Act to help all students participate in the general curriculum.
General Learning Objectives
(Note: Each lesson has specific learning objectives)
- Identify the characteristics and challenges of providing collaborative occupational therapy services and supports within a historical perspective of working in inclusive schools.
- Illustrate the collaborative roles occupational therapists engage in to support students with disabilities in multiple school contexts within the context of a general education curriculum.
- Analyze the contextual variables that influence how students, families, and education personnel collaborate in an interactive team process.
- Describe strategies and approaches for building team partnerships, including mentoring and coaching other school-based therapists.
- Review the evidence for providing in-context team supports to ensure students’ participation in inclusive environments.
- Consider practical strategies for resolving challenges related to participating on collaborative teams to provide occupational therapy services and supports.
- Recognize the communication and teaming skills needed to effectively engage in collaboration to support student learning within different environments in a school.
- Identify the process of initiating and sustaining changes in practice and influencing families/education personnel to engage in collaboration with occupational therapists.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: 2…4…6…8…How Do You Collaborate?
- Definition of collaboration
- Hands-on services with team supports
- System supports
- Benefits and challenges of collaboration
Chapter 2: Team Faces and Spaces
- Faces: Core and extended school teams
- Places and spaces: School environments
- Paces: Routines, schedules, classroom culture
- Contextual influences on collaboration
Chapter 3: Teamwork vs. the Lone Ranger
- Characteristics of collaborative teams
- Collective decision making
- Team operations and communication
- Mentoring and coaching
Chapter 4: Getting Into a Collaborative School Routine
- School-based occupational therapy
- Applying the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework in education settings
- Early intervening services
- Collaboration during evaluation, assessment, and intervention
Chapter 5: Collaboration in Action: The Nitty Gritty
- Communicating about occupational therapy
- Managing a workload
- Administrative support for flexible services
- Documenting collaborative services and supports
Chapter 6: Conflict Happens: Negotiate, Collaborate, and Get Over It
- Problem-solving strategies
- Principles of negotiation
- Stages of team development
Chapter 7: Reframing Perspectives About Collaboration
- Encouraging parents and teachers to collaborate
- Understanding the change process in schools
- Strategies for initiating system-wide collaboration
Target Audience
Advanced-level, school-based occupational therapists who have experience in providing pediatric occupational therapy evaluations, assessments, and interventions, and who understand federal and state laws, regulations, and policies that govern public education. The content is appropriate for occupational therapy therapists and occupational therapy assistants, although the terms occupational therapist and therapist are used throughout the course.
AOTA Classification for Continuing Education
Category 1: Domain of Occupational Therapy, Areas of Occupation
Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process, Evaluation and Intervention
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Exam
You are encouraged to complete the SPCC and return the exam within one year of purchase, although completed examinations will be accepted at any time until such time as the course is discontinued. Certificates of completion are awarded after you have successfully completed the written examination with an 80% passing score.
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Non-Degree Credit From Colorado State University
The Collaborating for Student Success: A Guide for School-Based Occupational Therapy SPCC has been approved to receive 1 non-degree graduate credit from Colorado State University. Information regarding cost and application to CSU will be included with your materials.