Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You have the aides submit written reports.
You don't want to take any time away from the students by having meetings
with the teacher's aides. They are all paid to be with the students.
However, you do need to hear their input, and so you ask them to write reports
on the students.
Since you want to keep their time away from the students at a minimum,
you create a report that is easy for them to fill in, and will give you all
of the answers you will need when writing up your final report.
Linda Underwood is a special education teacher. "Communicating in print
is important. Not just the filling out of forms, but the creation of forms.
Not much exists that is tailor-made for the setting I am teaching
in."
You know that if there is a question that you have trouble understanding
the aide's answer to, you can just ask them to clarify at school. This
wouldn't take up much time, and would definitely be less time than if
you had a meeting.
You are able to get all of the information you need from these reports
and send off a detailed copy to the proper government agency. As time goes
on, you improve on the forms, and eventually have a form that you are satisfied
with.