+1 862 207 3288 Team Discussion Assignment Overview:
These instructions provide your team with a framework for your discussion. This discussion forum
provides you with an opportunity to share ideas related to the lesson discussion readings and your own
experiences.
Step 1. When you connect as a Team, select a Team Leader for your Lesson 2 Discussion. Your team leader
will be responsible for:
• Submitting your Team Discussion Summary to the Lesson 2 Team Discussion Blackboard assignment link on
behalf of your group.
Step 2. Decide how you would like to assemble your Team Discussion Summary. Previous Teams have found
that using a GoogleDoc is an effective way to develop your Discussion Summary. This decision is up to
you – teams have also used the Adobe Connect collaborative resources to compile their team summary.
Step 3. The Team Leader should create a document entitled: TeamName-DiscussionLesson (for example, if
your assigned Team name is Group J, Team 1, you would name your document: Team J1 – Discussion Lesson
2).
• At the top of your document, include the names of each of your Team members who were present and
contributed in your Team meeting.
Your Discussion Team meeting for Lesson 2:
Record your Team Discussion Meeting. Each team has been assigned a Team Leader who will be responsible
for recording the team meeting. Ensure that the red Record notification appears in the upper right
corner of your screen during your team meeting. Each team meeting must be recorded using the Adobe
Connect record feature in order to receive credit for your meeting.
Discuss the following questions within your group:
• Each member of the team should select a different reading from the supplemental reading list. (See
Lesson 2 Readings.)
• When reviewing your article, summarize briefly what it was about, and consider 1-2 questions that it
prompted you to consider as a result of reading it. Bring that summary and questions to consider for
the team discussion.
• In this Lesson, each reading is about a different perspective of people who often care for
individuals with autism (parents, teachers, interventionists, speech-language pathologists, etc.). In
your discussion of your different articles consider what you learned that was new about your
perspective, and how it might change the way you think about that individual’s role in the life of an
individual with autism. So, for example, if you had the parent perspective, and you learned about some
research on parents, did that change the way you look at the role of parents in the lives of their
child with autism? What would you do or recommend differently for a parent of a child with autism as a
result of learning about this research?
• In this first discussion, you also want to share with each other your interview questions that you
have begun to prepare for the interview assignment. All team members should review each other’s
interview questions to give feedback and provide clarifications on questions, when needed. It can also
serve as a way to give each other ideas about questions that you hadn’t already considered for your own
interviews.
Develop a Brief Team Discussion Summary:
• Write a brief, 1-2 page summary of your group discussions for this lesson.
• Team Leaders, submit the summary to your instructor via the lesson assignment link in Blackboard.
