The format of Technical Assistance (TA) refers to the range of activities, contexts, and methods that can be tailored to the team’s strengths, preferences, and goals. The sections below outline some options for ways we might address the identified outcomes. Use them as a starting point for discussing how your team operates and what type of collaboration might fit best with your goals. Decisions about preferred formats can be recorded on the initial TA Summary / Plan.

Communication

• email
• phone call
• online sharing group (e.g. Google)
• record review
• informal meeting
• formal meeting
• conference calls
• video calls

Training

• feedback of video observation (partner or student)
• video record of target intervention
• recorded Webinars
• online training
• consultant presentation
• self-directed learning modules
• conferences

Observation (distance video or on-site)

• Student
• Context
• Partner

Dissemination

• website links
• materials: identify, create
• online groups
• listserves
• blogs
• state projects
• communities of practice

Intervention

• probe student response (consultant performs/directs)
• modeling (demonstration for partners)
• coaching (role release consultant to partner)

Documentation

• contact summary
• action plan
• resources
• student portfolio