Coaching Prompts for Team Meetings

TEAM EI Colorado Vision: Every child and family served by EI Colorado has access to a primary provider in addition to a diverse team of early interventionists that possess expertise to build family capacity to support the child in everyday learning

Reminder! A teaming meeting is a regularly scheduled formal meeting that includes the entire child and family’s early intervention team. During teaming meetings, the team will use a coaching interaction style to collaborate, problem-solve, and build each other’s capacity. The prompts below should be used if you support the primary provider after they have shared their needs/questions.

Coaching Prompts for Team Meetings

• What are the family’s current priorities? Have they changed at all? Have you asked the family about them?

• What specific routines or activities is the family seeking additional support for?

• What strategies have been effective for this family, and how can we build on them?

• What has the family tried so far, and what outcomes have we seen?

• What would the family say if you asked them…?

• How did it feel when that happened?

• How can we adapt our support to fit within the family’s daily routines?

• What next steps do we need to take as a team to support this family?

• What additional resources may we need to better meet the family’s needs?

• What assumptions are we making about this family, and how can we challenge those assumptions?

• How are we empowering the family to take the lead in their child’s development?

To close the meeting, always ask:

• Do you feel like your questions/needs were answered/met? What do you still need to support this family?

When in doubt, remember…

• Stick to open-ended questions (don’t get stuck with one-word, yes/no answers!)

• Give ample time for a response