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Parent Meetings

MAPS
(McGill Action Planning System)
Terri Vandercook and Jennifer York


Technique: Group meetings to chart solutions to student issues and behaviors
MAPS provides a common vision and road map for all team members, which enables them to be supportive and effective in better integration of learners with disabilities or behavior issues and provision of best instruction.
Members of the team meet to dream and plan the best educational strategies for the student. The team sits in a half circle with a facilitator at the open end. Ideas generated are recorded on a piece of chart paper which serves as a communication devise and a final record of the meeting. The meeting process strives for: 1) integration, 2) individualization, 3) teamwork and collaboration, 4) flexibility.
Questions addressed during the teaming are:
  1. What is the student’s history
  2. What is your dream for the individual?
  3. What is your nightmare?
  4. Who is this student?
  5. What are the student’s strengths, gifts and abilities?
  6. What are the student’s needs?
  7. What would the student’s ideal day at school look like and what must be done to make it happen?
Strengths
    Provides a common language about the youngster
    Focuses team meetings in a positive direction
Rebounds
    May take two sessions
    Parents may not show
    Others in school may not be willing to individualize and integrate
        From McGill Action Planning System (1995) Forest, Snow & Lusthaus, in press.

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