Teacher's Guide to Inclusive Practices: Collaborative Teaming

This resource explains how to create successful education teams by building teamwork skills, developing problem-solving methods, implementing action plans, teaching collaboratively, and improving communication skills among members. A great way to organize information for IEP meetings.

Martha E. Snell, Ph.D., is a professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia where she has taught since 1973. Her focus is special education and, specifically, th preparation of teachers of students with mental retardation and severe disabilities and young children with disabilities. Prior to completing her doctoral degree in special education at Michigan State University, she worked with children and adults with disabilities as a residential child care worker, a teacher, and a provider of technical assistance to school and residential programs. In addition to teaching coursework at the undergraduate and graduate levels, she currently coordinates the special education program, supervises teachers in training, provides in-service training to teachers and parents in schools and agencies, conducts research, serves on the boards of several community agencies serving people with disabilities, and is an active memeber of the American Association on Mental Retardation and TASH(formerly the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps).