Author: Nancy K. French
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0761977864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This guide provides tools and strategies for recruiting, managing, and using paraeducators in schools. It offers guidelines for using paraeducators in ways that best contribute to student achievement as well as strategies for identifying best practices, time frames, and people best suited for training paraprofessionals. It includes specific guidelines for working with paraeducators in special education, Title I, ESL training, school libraries and media centers, general and special education classrooms, speech/language pathology, and health-care services. It is designed for district-level administrators, school administrators, and teachers. The chapters are titled as follows: (1) "Employing Support Personnel in Schools"; (2) "Potential Problems with Paraeducators/Finding Solutions"; (3) "The Shifting Roles of School Professionals"; (4) "Recruiting and Hiring Paraprofessionals"; (5) "Starting Off on the Right Foot"; (6) "Taking Time to Save Time: Delegating to Paraeducators"; (7) "Planning for Paraeducators"; (8) "Paraeducator Training"; (9) "Monitoring and Evaluating Paraeducator Performance"; (10) "Managing the Workplace." Each chapter contains a summary. The guide also contains many user-friendly information recaps; lists of questions; sample forms; sample plans; worksheets for a variety of tasks; and self-assessment and support checklists for a variety of tasks. (Contains a subject index and 73 references.) (WFA).
Author: Region IV Education Service Center
Publisher:
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781932797169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Julie Causton
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781681254838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Discover everything a great paraprofessional needs to know and do in the second edition of this bestselling guidebook! Acclaimed inclusion expert Julie Causton and new co-author Kate MacLeod bring you a supremely practical guide to every facet of your complex role: partnering with teachers, selecting accommodations and modifications, facilitating peer connections, fading your support, and much more. WHAT'S NEW: New chapter on Respectful Support for Developing Student Independence, More on key topics such as collaboration, presuming competence, and supporting social and academic success for students with diverse abilities, New and updated research, practices, resources, examples, quiz questions, and reflection activities throughout the book, Package of online materials, including printable activities, forms, and worksheets"--
Author: Jill Morgan
Publisher:
Published: 2018-12-08
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9781729473474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Effective collaboration requires effective supervision. Supplied here are 101 tested, proven ideas for teachers' supervision of paraprofessionals. Paraprofessionals providing student supports can gain ideas to help their effectiveness, too!Written for teachers who supervise paraprofessionals, paraeducators and teaching assistants in the schools. Tips, hints and proven effective actions are recommended to proactively prevent problems before they arise and to enhance the teamwork of adults in schools.Other books in the series are The Successful Paraprofessional--preventing stress; The Paraprofessionals Guide to Effective Behavioral Intervention; The Paraprofessionals Guide to Dyspraxia; and Paraprofessionals in the Classroom--a survival guide.
Author: Kent Gerlach, Ed.D.
Publisher: National Professional Resources, Inc.
Published: 2014-11
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1935609947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →School teams are more important now than ever before to meet the needs of all students. With more diverse, inclusive classrooms, larger class sizes, and greater workloads, teachers increasingly depend upon the contribution of paraeducators. In Let's Team Up, Kent Gerlach provides a convenient checklist to help teachers, principals, and paraeducators understand their roles and responsibilities as they relate to each other. The book offers >tips for teachers on how to work effectively with paraeducators; >tips for paraeducators on clarifying their jobs and their relationships with students and school staff; >tips for principals on the supervision of paraeducators. This convenient resource will help school teams successfully meet the needs of all students!
Author: Kent Gerlach
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Defines the responsibilities of teachers' aids, teachers, and principals with an emphasis and how these roles relate to one another.