Critical Analysis:
Benefits of the novel:
1) Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) can be used with all students and children.
2) CPS addresses any lagging skills that the student is currently facing.
3) CPS addresses both parties concerns and comes to a mutual consensus on a plan to solve the problem versus an adult only developed solution.
4) Student voice is not only incorporated but it is used and a plan is developed based on this voice.
5) It is a team approach.
6) It provides tools to identify unsolved problems and lagging skills.
7) Provides explicit examples of how to improve interactions with students.
8) A practical guide for successful collaboration among teachers, parents, administrators, and kids.
Constraints of the novel:
1) It requires time to read the novel and when most teachers, parents, administrators and kids need the strategies, they are in a state of crisis and do not have the time.
2) The CPS process takes time.
1) Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) can be used with all students and children.
2) CPS addresses any lagging skills that the student is currently facing.
3) CPS addresses both parties concerns and comes to a mutual consensus on a plan to solve the problem versus an adult only developed solution.
4) Student voice is not only incorporated but it is used and a plan is developed based on this voice.
5) It is a team approach.
6) It provides tools to identify unsolved problems and lagging skills.
7) Provides explicit examples of how to improve interactions with students.
8) A practical guide for successful collaboration among teachers, parents, administrators, and kids.
Constraints of the novel:
1) It requires time to read the novel and when most teachers, parents, administrators and kids need the strategies, they are in a state of crisis and do not have the time.
2) The CPS process takes time.