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Delivery mode: Individualized study with
Online-enhancements. Video component*.
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: EDPY 351, or PSYC 389/EDPY 389, or equivalent.
Precluded course: PSYC 470 is a cross-listed course—a course available in two different disciplines—with EDPY 470. PSYC 470 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for EDPY 470.
Centre: Centre for Psychology
PSYC 470 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Course website
This is a three-credit, senior level course designed to increase awareness of the framework and rationale for collaboration, the facilitating factors involved, and strategies for implementation. The main emphasis of the course is on understanding collaborative consultation as a process that enables people with diverse expertise to work together to generate solutions for educating students with special education needs in regular public school classrooms.
Topics to be covered include:
Part 1 - Contexts for Working Together
Unit 1: Consultation, Collaboration, and Teamwork in Schools
Unit 2: Foundations and Frameworks for Collaborative School Consultation
Unit 3: Working Together with Families and Students
Part 2: Processes for Working Together
Unit 4: Communication Processes
Unit 5: Problem-Solving Strategies
Unit 6: Management and Assessment
Part 3: Content of Working Together
Unit 7: Working Together for Students from Diverse Populations
Unit 8: Working Together for Students with Disabilities
Unit 9: Working Together for Students with High Ability
Part 4: Working Together Now and in the Future
Unit 10: Roles of School Personnel
Unit 11: Related-Services Personnel, Resources, and Technology
Unit 12: Putting It All Together
The final grade in PSYC 470 is based on performance on four quizzes, the completion of the course project, and the final exam. To receive credit for this course you must achieve a grade of 50 percent or better on the final exam and on the course project, as well as an overall course grade of at least “D” (50 percent).
Quizzes | Course Project | Final Exam | Total |
---|---|---|---|
20% | 40% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Dettmer, P., Dyck, N., & Thurston, L. (2005). Consultation, collaboration, and teamwork for students with special needs (5th ed.). Toronto: Allyn and Bacon.
The course materials include a study guide, a student manual, an assignment manual, and a book of readings.