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School-Based Bilingual Special Education Teacher Assistance TeamsKATHLEEN C. HARRIS is a professor in the College of Education at Arizona State University West. She received her PhD from Temple University. Dr. Harris has been involved in the field of educational consultation for the last 20 years. For the last decade she has focused on exploring ways in which professionals can collaborate to better meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Address: Kathleen C. Harris, Arizona State University West, College of Education, PO Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100. This article discusses the establishment of school-based bilingual special education teams in one, primarily hispanic, school district located in an urban southwest city. the discussion is based on field notes, transcripts of unstructured interviews and conference presentations, and documents produced by team members. the issues discussed relate to the following areas: perceptions of team members' roles in the school, problems in assuming an active classroom consultation role, problems in supporting the maintenance of school-based teams, and differences in perceptions of the consultant's status with respect to these school-based teams.
Remedial and Special Education, Vol. 16, No. 6,
337-343 (1995) This article has been cited by other articles:
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