Paraprofessional tips

Para classroom jobs and expectations to manage and work with your classroom support staff, while building positive rapport. Learn More at Mrs. D's Corner.

A one shop stop for beginning as a paraeducator, filled with essentially good tips!

With these strategies, you'll build a go-to tool kit for handling and preventing behavior problems.

Does your special education classroom have a paraprofessional? This blog post will talk all about training paraprofessionals so that they can offer one on one instruction with students and reinforce teaching. Today, I outline paraprofessional roles, what to include in your paraprofessional binder, classroom training topics, setting classroom expectations in the first 2 weeks of school and more. Check out my other paraprofessional tips that I have learned over the years in the classroom.

Tips for managing support staff in your classroom. It is important that we communicate often, but that's just the start. Learn more here.

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Paraprofessional Expectations - Where do you begin? Learn what needs to be included (and you don't need to start from scratch!).

So, a couple weeks ago a friend of mine called me to ask some advice about handling some issues with a TA working in her classroom. At the time, there was only a few days left of summer school but she would be working with the same TA in the fall. She really wanted to get the new school year off to a great start but was concerned that some of the past issues would continue. I also am working with some new TAs in my classroom this year and really wanted to set high expectations from the…

hyena reality Eventually, I will write a lovely end-of-the-year post (probably entitled something original like: "What I Learned as a First-Year Teacher"), but this morning, I want to write about something a little bit different. The differences between my life as a paraprofessional (teacher assistant) and my life as a teacher . I'm sure many of you are aware that I began my life as an educator, not in the classroom, but in a lunchroom. After I had home schooled The Boy and Baby Girl for a…