Family Road Map Guide

Focus
The Classroom –
Treatment Connection
you need to know which person is the speech pathologist, which one is the resource
teacher, and so on, in order to understand the information each person is presenting.
Third, you may need to contact some of these people later.
At the beginning of the meeting, try one of these methods for connecting
names and faces.
Business Card Bingo: Ask each member of their team to give you his or
her business card. Ask anyone who doesn’t have a card to write the name and job
title on a small piece of paper. Lay these cards out in front of you in the same pattern
that people are seated at the table. Glance down at the cards when you need
to jog your memory.
Seating Chart: Draw the table’s shape on a piece of notebook paper. Outside
the “table,” make a circle for each person at the meeting. Pass the paper
around, starting at one corner of the room, and ask each member of the team to
print his or her name and job title in or near the circle that goes with that position
at the table. Then put this paper in front of you so you can glance at it when needed.
Ask someone at the table to help you organize the cards or start the seating
chart. Getting others involved can be a great icebreaker, because almost everybody
has trouble remembering names. Also, it will help save time and let you give full
attention to the meeting. Put a star next to the person who is acting as Local Education
Agency or school system representative as a reminder to keep your
focus on him or her. After the meeting, write the date on this paper and file it with
your meeting notes in the “School” section. Keep all business cards!
Business Card Bingo
Lay business cards out in front of you in
the same pattern that people are seated
at the table.
Seating Chart
Ask each member of the team to print
his or her name and job title in or near
the circle that goes with their position at
the table.
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