Description
Do you have a clear picture of what good practice looks like for each certified paraprofessional role day to day? Do you want practical ways to coordinate instruction, behavior support, and student independence with every certified role on your team? Clear role understanding improves student outcomes and reduces frustration, and certified paras strengthen instruction when expectations, prompting, and fading plans are aligned. In this course, Michelle Dragalin takes a deeper, practical look at each certified role with real classroom scenarios, sample schedules, and collaboration routines so teachers and paras can work in sync and use certified paraprofessional roles to support instruction, behavior, and student independence.
Objectives
Identify typical responsibilities and boundaries for each certified paraprofessional role.
Explain how certified paras contribute to instruction, behavior support, and student independence.
Implement a daily collaboration routine that aligns tasks, prompts, and fading across roles.
Examine case studies to determine the most appropriate certified role actions and communication steps.
Use observation notes and student independence data to judge the effectiveness of role deployment.
Design a classroom deployment plan and weekly communication schedule that coordinates certified paraprofessionals with teacher goals.
