Interdisciplinary Pre-Service Professional Preparation Through Video Modeling

Abstract

Preparation of pre-service professionals to work in the field of special education requires explicitly taught approaches to collaboration as a part of a multidisciplinary team. The authors' faculty learning community provides a model to emanate the skills, knowledge, and dispositions of a high-functioning collaborative team expected from pre-service professionals through a mock individualized education program (IEP) team video series. Issues (origin story), solutions (video modeling), and areas of future research (mock interdisciplinary student teams) will be discussed. A description of Cox's (n.d.) 16 recommendations to frame a faculty learning community, video production, and other relevant topics for potential implementation will also be included. The faculty learning community and its video modeling products are presented as an exemplar for interdisciplinary, cross-departmental/institutional expertise to model a positive student-centered mock IEP team.