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= Welcome to SPED 460: Family Systems & Professional Collaboration = This course covers the collaboration and communication skills necessary to work within family systems and the use of resources and services supporting birth through lifespan services, multidisciplinary team functioning, and the placement committee processes. Dr. Tim Fiegen (the best way to contact me is though campus email, tim.fiegen@dsu.edu)

Using Elluminate Help Video
Introduction Video =[|Wiki]= [|Wiki in Plain English]

 [|National Standards for Parent Involvement - By the National PTA]

**TEXTBOOK:** Berger, E. H., **"** Parents as Partners in Education ** (7th Ed.) " ** Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2008. ($90?) There is an digital version for $32? @ []

Some things you will need......  1. You will need web space to build 10 web projects toward your teacher web page.....  2. You will need to find a parent to interview that has a child in school on an IEP......  3. You will need to interview a teacher about communications and involving parents.....  4. You will need to be on the discussion board three (3) times during each of the 15 weeks 4 out of the 7 days......  5. You will want a high speed connection to access the course videos.....  6. You will need to complete all assignments and submit on time...  7. You will need to complete all eight chapter quizzes and the final on-time.....  8. 10 web projects, 15 discussion boards, and 9 chapter quizzes.......